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Re:The world might run out of people by watwut on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:45AM (#19095406)
> On average most woman want two children. But when a lot of them die they will get more (average of 6 around 1800).

Citation needed, especially since we are talking about much different cultures.

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Re:The world might run out of people by epakai on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:25AM (#19095785)
It's fairly independent of culture, and where culture matters it eventually changes because women become enfranchised.

Use slider at the bottom to vary time.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2018;&mar...

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Re:The world might run out of people by watwut on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:47AM (#19096017)
You said "women want" and it sounded general statement. Not same as women decide to have nor actually have.

Had the price (not just monetary) of having child be different, the decisions quite easily can be different.

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