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Re:Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibio... by buyx on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:47AM (#16939107)
South Africa’s fertility rate has dropped in the last few decades and is now 2.34. It was 6 in 1960.

Your own link shows a fertility decline (look at the table at the bottom of the page).

There is no reason to suppose that this won’t happen in other African countries, as education, immunisation, and urbanisation take effect.

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Re:Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibio... by TangoTrotFox on Friday April 27, 2018 @05:51AM (#16939570)
There's very good reason to think it won't happen. This [1] paper from the UN provides a good overview of South Africa's extremely unique situation. Similar information is available here [2]. The gist of it is that South Africa's declining fertility rate was exclusively the result of extensive efforts, not entirely benevolently motivated, by their former [apartheid] government.

[1] - https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/completingfer...

[2] - https://sarpn.org/documents/d0000104/page2.php

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