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> I find it fascinating that South Korea [..] is very religious. I thought [..] religion was supposed to raise [fertility]. South Korea: 1.1 fertility rate, 56
by nhchris 4y ago
> I find it fascinating that South Korea [..] is very religious. I thought [..] religion was supposed to raise [fertility].
South Korea: 1.1 fertility rate, 56% no religion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea
USA: 1.8 fertility rate, 29% no religion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Mexico: 2.1 fertility rate, 15% no religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
Niger: 6.6 fertility rate, 0.1% no religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger
Granted these are randomly chosen countries. If you want to invest the effort and plot fertility rate vs. religion for all countries where data are available to see what correlation (!= causation) emerges, be my guest.
Source for fertility rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_total_fertility_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...