Fertility Rates in Selected Countries

Fertility rates in most Western countries are well below replacement. India's birth rate has fallen dramatically. But birth rates in Africa remain high.
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Level 73
Jul 17, 2018
More intercourse then!
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Level 34
Aug 22, 2018
Oh yeah - "Ferris Buller's Day Off"
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Level 73
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?
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Level ∞
Aug 14, 2018
Japan may be in a perpetual recession, but unemployment is 2.4%. Not bad!
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Level 34
Aug 21, 2018
You do realise immigrants grow old too.
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Level 82
Aug 21, 2018
You do realize that it takes some time for young people to get old, right?
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Level ∞
Jun 28, 2021
Then just get more immigrants. And then when they get old, even more, and then when they get old, and the whole world lives in your country, I guess space aliens could immigrate. It doesn't seem like a sustainable solution.
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Level 73
Aug 21, 2018
or we could get our birth rates back up
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Level 82
Aug 21, 2018
One of these solutions is easy, the other is impossible.
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Level 53
Dec 7, 2022
One is also more fun.
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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.
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Level 73
Nov 14, 2019
:O
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Level 82
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.
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Level 68
Nov 9, 2021
Knew this from Interesting facts!
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Level 33
Nov 14, 2019
Surprising that India's population is growing but birth rate decreasing? WOW
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Level 75
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

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Level 51
Aug 17, 2020
Most of the countries in the world have a increasing population growth rate, but a decreasing fertility rate.
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Level 59
Mar 2, 2024
over 2.1 is needed + even after it drops below 2.1, it'l increase for a bit
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Level 23
Mar 25, 2021
1966 in japan: AHH
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Level 68
Nov 9, 2021
I think you forgot to include the key to show which colour represents which country at the top. But nice graph, one of the better ones.