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PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. Low birth rates are hardly unique to this country.
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 09:14 PM
Dec 2024

Here's a link that contains many other wonderful links on this topic: https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2024/

The only reason population in this country is growing is because of immigration.

When most children who are born live to grow up, as compared to some large percent not living to grow up, women fairly quickly stop having so many children. The only reason the population of China is still growing is that there are still many millions of women of child- bearing age, but their total fertility is well below replacement rate. Again, look at the population pyramid for China.

This planet is already vastly overpopulated, and we are not collectively reducing our population at this point.

And I really wonder how many children each of those academics cited have.

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