Portland Press Herald -Almost half of all countries have fertility rates below the replacement level, according to an unprecedented study published by The Lancet journal. While there was not a single nation with a fertility rate below the 2.05 threshold back in 1950, the global average is now only 2.4 – down from 4.7 about 70 years ago.
Differences between nations have become more pronounced, with some European countries having record-low rates down to one child per woman on average, compared to more than six children in some African nations.
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The fewer people on planet earth, the more likely that the people will be healthy and the ecosystems able to support them, The idea that we need more people so the economy can boom is almost as stupid as anything Donald Trumop thinks is true.
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