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Re:China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy pr... by perlgeek on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:43AM (#37172454)
It does, but on a global scale this only works as long as there are enough countries with high birth rates. And birth rates are going down basically everywhere.
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Re:China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy pr... by ssijak on Friday August 18, 2023 @04:49AM (#37172925)
They are up in "undeveloped" countries.
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Re:China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy pr... by perlgeek on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:29AM (#37174728)
They are higher in less developed countries, but still falling.

Go to https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate and select some regions, see for yourself. Africa as a whole has declining fertility rates. Even if you look a high-growth countries such as Niger or Democratic Republic of Congo, the fertility rate has been declining in the last 20-30 years, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a country where it has gone up.

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