Fellow childfree folks, how much did you love writing the check out to the IRS after hearing all the

[Warren DeMontague]

214. Why don't you tell me which data point you think needs Additional verification.

Here is the Most recent data on fertility rates by country. Replacement birth rates are generally taken to be between 2.1 and 2.3, depending again, on local conditions such as health care.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate

As you can see, the rates for most advanced countries are generally at or below the accepted replacement rate of 2.1 for advanced industrialized countries with low mortality and modern health care.

In these graphs You will see that the us fertility rate began declining with the introduction of the pill, and continued though the sexual revolution.





That "there is a population problem" is one of those things that people think they just know, but isn't borne out by the facts.