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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by bboygravity on Thursday April 10, 2025 @03:25AM (#43641532)
US birthrate is 1.6, really bad, but by far less disasterous and permanent as China's 1.
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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by throwaway2037 on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:02AM (#43642400)
I Googled: china fertility rate 2024

A couple of reliable sources say: 1.7 births per woman

Where did you get 1?

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Re:How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike sho... by boelboel on Thursday April 10, 2025 @07:11AM (#43642736)
No credible source says 1.7, the source that says this must be based on some kinda UN projection of 2010. Real TFR is probably around 1.0, in some parts of china it's below 0.7 (in the northeast it's around this number, in Macao it's 0.4). A lot of other countries are completely fucked as well and google pushes up UN projections from years ago (Like colombia UN projects the fertility rate to be higher in 2100 than it is according to the official numbers right now).
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