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Modern countries today have fertility rate around 1,4-1,9 (children per woman during all her life). USA has it aroud 1,7 for white people, I believe. There wou
by guard-of-terra 11y ago
Modern countries today have fertility rate around 1,4-1,9 (children per woman during all her life).
USA has it aroud 1,7 for white people, I believe.
There would not be any new people. They're barely replenished with all the set of tricks you can pull.
Any soldier who falls in battle means, since wives need husbands and since it's customary to let youth fight, your nation is smaller by two. Permanently. That's what we have today, anyway.
- roymurdock 11y agoI'm not sure what you are arguing? There's an entire generation of people (baby boomers) who were born post WW2 in a period of extremely high birth rates due to favorable economic conditions created by the war - minimal unemployment, economic expansion due to government spending, and increased spending on housing and education due to the GI Bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_baby_boom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_baby...
- guard-of-terra 11y agoThat's ancient history by demographic standards. Modern wars don't create baby booms. People en masse don't want more than 2 children. Dead people want nothing.