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Progressive dog

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11. That we could argue about

Reply to orthoclad (Reply #8)

Fri Jun 30, 2023, 07:14 PM

Jun 2023

First world birthrates are much much lower. Most first world nations, including the USA, have birthrates below replacement rates.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/

The fertility of the population of the United States is below replacement among those native born, and above replacement among immigrant families and the socially deprived (Singh et al., 2001).

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