JetPunk Charts :: Birth Rates in Selected Countries

Birth Rates in Selected Countries

Birth rates in most Western countries are now below replacement, and birth rates in India have fallen rapidly, but birth rates in Africa remain high.

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Source: World Bank

HatemAli

level 67

Jul 17, 2018

More intercourse then!

ibi26

level 38

Aug 22, 2018

Oh yeah - "Ferris Buller's Day Off"

pkerr116

level 70

Aug 12, 2018

US needs more immigration, not less. Or destined to suffer from perpetual recession, as Japan has since 1990. Young, productive working people to support old, retired people. Ponzi, anyone?

Quizmaster

level ∞

Aug 14, 2018

Japan may be in a perpetual recession, but unemployment is 2.4%. Not bad!

JRM4PM

level 37

Aug 21, 2018

You do realise immigrants grow old too.

kalbahamut

level 77

Aug 21, 2018

You do realize that it takes some time for young people to get old, right?

guyman32

level 65

Aug 21, 2018

or we could get our birth rates back up

kalbahamut

level 77

Aug 21, 2018

One of these solutions is easy, the other is impossible.

Quizmaster

+13

level ∞

Nov 12, 2019

If you're wondering why Japan had a sharp decline in births in 1966, it's because of a Japanese superstition that says it's bad luck for girls to be born in the year of the Fire Horse. This happens every 60 years. The next one will occur in 2026.

HatemAli

level 67

Nov 14, 2019

kalbahamut

level 77

Nov 14, 2019

The power of stupidity in large numbers... and it's pretty funny there was a bit of a spike in '65... I guess those couples were trying to get one in under the wire.

ProQuizzzer

level 24

Nov 14, 2019

Surprising that India's population is growing but birth rate decreasing? WOW

roleybob

level 73

Nov 14, 2019

It's still above 2...
At least in 2017 it was. And if average life expectancy is increasing and / or people are having children younger then the current extant population can increase even if birth rates drop below replacement