Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world
by linkregister on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:43PM
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1. Proven causation is a high bar for drawing conclusions in conversation or on a website.
2. Luxembourg is the only microstate in the chart. Fixation on a singular outlier is not useful.
Firstly, assuming we're looking at pg 50, seems to be correlation not causation - causation could be reversed (no children -> no need to spend). Secondly, there are so many correlations in that report that picking out any specific one is a bit random.
Also it isn't immediately clear if they're population weighting since the graph makes the US look like an equal to LUX instead of a 300 million person behemoth. To me that seems to make the correlation a minor curio.