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I think that's due to immigration - not birthrates.

• cjbprime 8y ago
  There's also a lag associated with fertility rate decreases. Even if the children-per-woman rate has decreased sharply, the population can still be increasing for decades afterwards, because there are still a sharply higher absolute number of women in the relatively-lower-rate birthing generation, thanks to the rate having been higher in the past when they were born. Not caring about lower fertility rates because you don't realize that there's a temporary lag keeping the population increase high seems very careless.
  • smaddox 8y ago
    Far better for the population to decrease naturally by choice, than due to wars over limited resources.