It is indeed literally a case of rich/educated people have fewer children. It’s called the demographic-economic paradox. [1] There’s been a lot of research on

It is indeed literally a case of rich/educated people have fewer children. It’s called the demographic-economic paradox. [1] There’s been a lot of research on this because the effect is so pronounced. > In decreasing order of strength, fertility (TFR) correlates negatively with education, [contraceptive prevalence], and GDP per capita, and positively with religiosity. [2] If you’re educated, rich, non-religious and can bone with impunity you have somewhere between 1 and 2 kids on average, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 It is absolutely a fantastic deal to have kids in Finland where you get months and months of mat and pat leave, etc, and their birth rate is 1.37 Israel is only high because they’re a religious ethnostate and religiosity as the studies show is positively correlated with fertility. Respectfully I do think the data shows we should take this for granted. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility [2] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-020-8331-7 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...