Worldwide Fertility Rates and Population Growth
10 sats \ 3 comments \ @erict875 24 Feb charts
Population growth in Russia is quite low, compared to western countries, despite both camps having similar fertility rates.
According to the Daily Mail...
Experts believe the trend is partly down to women focusing on their education and careers and couples waiting to have children until later in life. The UK's fragile economy and cost-of-living crisis is also putting people off having children, some believe, evidenced by abortion rates simultaneously spiking. Others cite the environment, with people fearing that they will worsen their carbon footprint by having a child or that their child will have a bleak future due to climate change.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @tomlaies 24 Feb
China is the only proof you need that fertility is simply a function of wealth and societal freedoms.
China is so cooked. One child per mother, their population will drop like a rock. If you're no longer so poor that you need children up the authoritarian regime is so oppressive that nobody wants to have children. Worst case China might actually 4 real collapse under this.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @erict875 OP 25 Feb
China is the only proof you need that fertility is simply a function of wealth and societal freedoms.
Does Africa not contradict this? Or did I misunderstand you?
China is so cooked. One child per mother, their population will drop like a rock. If you're no longer so poor that you need children up the authoritarian regime is so oppressive that nobody wants to have children. Worst case China might actually 4 real collapse under this.
Absolutely! I think they've now dropped that silly policy, but the damage has been done already...
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @tomlaies 25 Feb
Subsaharan african countries aren't rich yet. But you can already see how Moroccos fertility is lower than Malis. Even smaller differences like Kenyas fertility rate is lower than Mosambiques. It's almost frightening how good this correlation holds.
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