Showing posts with label fertility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fertility. Show all posts
Monday, July 29, 2024

The global total fertility rate has fallen to 2.25, just above the 2.1 rate considered replacement level for developed countries, because the world has grown wealthier

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  I don't know why it shocks some people that as people get wealthier they have fewer children, but it does.   Global tfr is down 53% si...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

It's hard to escape the conclusion that US GDP has been highly dependent on fertility

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Peak Baby Boom 1952-1957 when births per 1,000 of population averaged 25.17 (graph 1) is probably the simplest explanation for outsized GD...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Warren Buffett, the king of contraception funding, thinks women waste their brains having children

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Two peas in a pod dedicated to deciding against life. If you want to know why America is dying, look no further than Warren Buffett, a...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Fertility drops in 2013: Maybe some demographers are under the ILLUSION of economic recovery

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They're puzzled by the total fertility rate dropping and staying below the replacement rate. Reported here : But the total f...

Lefties say America has 6 million not counted as unemployed

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The extreme left Economic Policy Institute here puts the number of missing workers in the US employment statistics at almost 6 million, giv...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Why Should Government Support Home Ownership? Babies Need Nests!

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America should support home ownership because babies need nests. Babies are future taxpayers. Babies are the future. Is it any coincidence ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

US Birthrate Declines From Replacement Rate To 1.87

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So says a report in USA Today, here : As the economy tanked, the average number of births per woman fell 12% from a peak of 2.12 in 2007. De...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Fertility In All Tiger Economies Has Fallen Below Replacement Rates

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So says Joel Kotkin for Forbes here : "All Tiger nations now suffer fertility rates roughly half the 2.1 children per household needed ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

America: Phoenix Rising From the Ashes

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From Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, here , not in the least because our own energy supplies and manufacturing are coming back, on top of all this:...