Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than Japan

Re:Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than... by klipt on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:14AM (#33940930)

> The fertility rate is high in European countries

"High" is very relative, France is still well below replacement fertility despite all their efforts.

Meanwhile very religious groups like the Amish have much higher fertility rates without any of those interventions.

Maybe a deep belief that god wants you to have kids is just much more effective than any policy?

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Re:Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than... by Scoundreller on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:59AM (#33944911)

> France is still well below replacement fertility despite all their efforts.

From the article I quoted:

> Since the early 2000s France has consistently topped European rankings. After two decades of decline, in the 1970s-80s, the fertility rate started picking up again in the late 1990s. Since then the country has registered scores just short of the mythical threshold of 2.1 children per woman, which would secure a steady population. Its fertility rate in 2014 was 2.01.

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Re:Asia’s advanced economies now have lower birth rates than... by klipt on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:32PM (#33946611)

Isn't that rate disproportionately owed to religious immigrants? Seems to me even France mostly relies on a religious drive to have kids, just an imported one. Among the non religious population, the rate is well below replacement and all the extra welfare barely moves the needle.

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