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Things are not better in the west. Fertility is below replacement in all developed countries and it is trending down in nearly all of them. Sweden: https://pop
by tuatoru 3y ago
Things are not better in the west. Fertility is below replacement in all developed countries and it is trending down in nearly all of them.
Sweden: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/752 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...
Canada: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/124 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...
USA: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/840 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...
Note, in all three charts, but especially the last, the assumption of a future "floor" to fertility. Such a floor has not yet been found to exist anywhere.