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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by Eridrus on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:22PM (#17096600)
Interestingly the US fertility rate started declining in 2008, and Canada's hit a peak in 2008 and went down from there.

Also interesting: China's fertility rate is apparently lower than the US's.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by chillacy on Thursday May 17, 2018 @11:41PM (#17098514)
Not surprising if you know about the One Child policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
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Re:US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further ... by Eridrus on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:16AM (#17101640)
That's what I thought originally, but if you look at the data it doesn't actually line up, chinese fertility rates were already well off their peak by 1979.

Of course, who knows if the chinese data is even accurate.

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