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Interestingly the US fertility rate started declining in 2008, and Canada's hit a peak in 2008 and went down from there. Also interesting: China's fertility ra
by Eridrus 8y ago
Interestingly the US fertility rate started declining in 2008, and Canada's hit a peak in 2008 and went down from there.
Also interesting: China's fertility rate is apparently lower than the US's.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:USA:IND:CHN:CAN&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
- chillacy 8y agoNot surprising if you know about the One Child policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
- Eridrus 8y agoThat's what I thought originally, but if you look at the data it doesn't actually line up, chinese fertility rates were already well off their peak by 1979. Of course, who knows if the chinese data is even accurate.