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What do you mean by dying out? Can you provide an explanation and/or sources for societies in Europe that you believe are dying out?

deogeo 8y ago
Probably referring to below-replacement birth-rates.
sunseb 8y ago
People do less and less chilidren in the western world, and Africa's population to double to 2.4 billion by 2050. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/10305000/Africas-population-to-double-to-2.4-billion-by-2050.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoc...
- jeena 8y ago
  I don't think there is a single country which fertility rate went up since the 60ies, not even in Africa: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
  - sunseb 8y ago
    https://www.passblue.com/2016/03/01/egypts-fertility-rate-turns-upward-but-why/ https://www.passblue.com/2016/03/01/egypts-fertility-rate-tu...
  - deogeo 8y ago
    And yet Africa's fertility rate is far above replacement levels, while those of China, Europe, and the US are below. I don't see how the change in fertility rate since the 60s is relevant.
  - tathougies 8y ago
    It's reasonable in light of modern agriculture and medicine for the fertility rate to go down, simply since fewer babies are dying, and thus breastfeeding longer. However, below replacement fertility rates are not sustainable for a society.
coldtea 8y ago
"That the parent believes"? This has been a well known fact for decades: http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/europedemographics/index.html http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/europedemographics/ind... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe https://qz.com/1187819/country-ranking-worlds-fastest-shrinking-countries-are-in-eastern-europe/ https://qz.com/1187819/country-ranking-worlds-fastest-shrink... https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/why-is-europe-losing-the-will-to-breed-1.2644169 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/why-is-europe-losing... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/29/infertility-crisis-sperm-counts-halved https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/29/infertility-...

deogeo 8y ago

Probably referring to below-replacement birth-rates.

sunseb 8y ago

People do less and less chilidren in the western world, and Africa's population to double to 2.4 billion by 2050. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/10305000/Africas-population-to-double-to-2.4-billion-by-2050.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianoc...

jeena 8y ago
I don't think there is a single country which fertility rate went up since the 60ies, not even in Africa: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
- sunseb 8y ago
  https://www.passblue.com/2016/03/01/egypts-fertility-rate-turns-upward-but-why/ https://www.passblue.com/2016/03/01/egypts-fertility-rate-tu...
- deogeo 8y ago
  And yet Africa's fertility rate is far above replacement levels, while those of China, Europe, and the US are below. I don't see how the change in fertility rate since the 60s is relevant.
- tathougies 8y ago
  It's reasonable in light of modern agriculture and medicine for the fertility rate to go down, simply since fewer babies are dying, and thus breastfeeding longer. However, below replacement fertility rates are not sustainable for a society.

coldtea 8y ago

"That the parent believes"? This has been a well known fact for decades: http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/europedemographics/index.html http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/europedemographics/ind... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing_of_Europe https://qz.com/1187819/country-ranking-worlds-fastest-shrinking-countries-are-in-eastern-europe/ https://qz.com/1187819/country-ranking-worlds-fastest-shrink... https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/why-is-europe-losing-the-will-to-breed-1.2644169 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/why-is-europe-losing... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/29/infertility-crisis-sperm-counts-halved https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/29/infertility-...