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I said children per family, not per person.
by hughw 9y ago
I said children per family, not per person.
- esrauch 9y agoI don't really understand the distinction: fewer children per family is the same thing as fewer per person right? Like if you have 1.4 children per person on average that means exactly 2.8 children per adult man + woman? All I meant to point out is that "birth rate falling" doesn't map to "population falling", if the average number of children per couple drops 2.5 to 2.1 then each generation is still larger (and the population still grows exponentially).
- hughw 9y agoYeah, it has to fall below 1.0 child per person for the population to decline. And it's commonly reported that is happening in developed countries.