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>If you want fewer people, then you want to improve the material well-being of as many people as possible. I'd genuinely like to see that model applied to sub
by OneEyedRobot 5y ago
>If you want fewer people, then you want to improve the material well-being of as many people as possible.
I'd genuinely like to see that model applied to sub Saharan Africa.
- foxfluff 5y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-by-gdp-per-capita?country=AGO~BEN~BWA~BFA~BDI~CMR~CPV~CAF~COM~COG~CIV~COD~DJI~GNQ~SWZ~ETH~GAB~GMB~GHA~GIN~GNB~KEN~LSO~LBR~MDG~MWI~MUS~MOZ~NAM~NGA~RWA~STP~SEN~SYC~SLE~ZAF~TZA~TGO~UGA~ZMB~ZWE https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-by-gdp...
- OneEyedRobot 5y agoSo you are suggesting that the per-capita material well-being in Nigeria has gone down all this time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria#/media/File:Nigeria-demography.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria#/media... I don't doubt that wealth can be a factor, but those systems are a whole lot more complicated than that. Money+Low Gini = Low birthrate is a meme as much as it is a primary driver.