[ExI] Birthrate falling worldwide - not just in the developed nations

[BillK]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 14:48, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> 2.5 children - in Canada's upper class.  1.5 children in the lower class
> another statistic - 1.25 children per couple
> Hard to reconcile these statistics, but in any case the upper classes are having children above replacement rate and the lower classes are far from it.  Yes, bring on the AI robots.   The overall intelligence should rise, eh?   bill w
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Ir seems to me that at present there are two different pressures
affecting the world population.
As the article says, in the less-developed nations, where women get
educated and have the rights to make their own decisions, they usually
reduce the number of children that they have.
For the developed nations, they have already gone through that phase
and reduced their reproduction rate. But now they have been hit by
inflation and large increases in the cost of living. They just can't
afford to have children! Especially when there are many attractive
alternatives to spend their heavily-taxed income on.


BillK