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> Italia is a largely more catholic country than France [0], yet France has a higher fertility rate France fertility rate are boosted by its Muslim population

• ookdatnog 4y ago
  Muslims account for about 6% of the general population in France, so I doubt that explains the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_France
  • shakow 4y ago
    I'm not saying it's the one and only factor (not even sure how much it actually count, numerically), I'm just saying that automatically equating “births in religious families in France” to “traditional catholic families” is too much of a shortcut.
    • twelve40 4y ago
      France has ~9mil, Germany has ~6mil, the UK has ~6mil, all comparable. France percentage-wise is also about the same as Bulgaria or Sweden. That doesn't sound like a massive differentiator, with all these other countries hovering around 1.5
• makeitdouble 4y ago
  Immigration is a strong part of it yes. Looking deeper into your source numbers, it’s interesting that they’re not consistent across countries for populations that are all “muslim”. From 1.5 in Greece to 3.1 in Finland, it still shows to me that religion is not the main factor in this.
  • lotsofpulp 4y ago
    I presume this is because the causal factor is women’s independence, specifically financial independence. Perhaps Muslim immigrants in some countries have women with more independence resulting in lower fertility rates, whereas Muslim immigrants in other countries have women with less independence, resulting in higher fertility rates.