10 sats \ 2 replies \ @tomlaies 24 Feb \ on: Worldwide Fertility Rates and Population Growth charts_and_numbers
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.
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...