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correlation does not mean causation... China had a birthrate boom during their industrilaization, so did Syria. It is a culture thing, not a socioeconomic thin

• emodendroket 10y ago
  > Findings from a 2015 government census show that the average Chinese woman has 1.05 children — a legacy of the one-child policy that changed on Jan. 1 to a two-child policy. It is the lowest fertility rate in the world, according to People’s Daily, the main newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/asia/china-fertility-birth.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/world/asia/china-fertility... It's logical that people would stop having so many kids once a society has industrialized because the cost of raising and educating them is relatively more expensive while the benefit to having them labor with you is essentially gone.