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"Why is our population declining? Why aren't millennials reproducing?" Truly a mystery!
by Lastodon 3y ago
"Why is our population declining? Why aren't millennials reproducing?" Truly a mystery!
- bick_nyers 3y agoMust be that damned internet!
- 0xcafefood 3y agoNo, it's because they're buying avocado toast.
- tomp 3y agoYou literally couldn't be more wrong. Fertility rate is inversely correlated with income. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
- mrkeen 3y agoThe article says that young people are poor, old people are rich. Parent comment claims that young people are not having kids because poor. Your graph says that richer people had fewer kids (in the last 12 months). Your graph would only refute the parent comment if you could show that people have fewer kids because they're richer, not because they're older (confounding factor) and/or people with more kids don't have to sacrifice an income to look after said kids (reverse causation)
- swagasaurus-rex 3y agoHere’s a better explanation: fertility is inversely correlated with price of living That explains why poor countries have high birth rates and rich countries have low birth rates
- tomp 3y agoThis is US-only data.
- 0xcafefood 3y agoI think few Baby Boomers will ever acknowledge the straight line between the bailouts that propped up housing resale values 15 years ago and their low number of grandchildren.