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I will only react to the last paragraph, but imho, the decline of religions has no causal relationship to the decline in birth. I do think they might be correla
by orwin 2y ago
I will only react to the last paragraph, but imho, the decline of religions has no causal relationship to the decline in birth. I do think they might be correlated, but my example is that France is way less religious than Italy or Turkey, and kept their fertility rates above 2.1 longer. Also, recently France had a small increase in religiosity, while its birthrate declined.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI wonder if that holds up when you look at demographics within each country. I don't know about the ones you mentioned, but I know that I the US, our national fertility rate is heavily increased by first generation immigrants, who are also more religious.
- toomuchtodo 2y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211031320 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211031... Religiosity is a contributing factor, but more influential is societal pressure (or lack thereof).