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peppertree

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1. 116 million people - with a median age of 16

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2026, 03:48 PM

7 hrs ago

One of humanity's great modern failures (among so many others), is having failed to prevail among the good Congolese to widely adopt birth control - for their own good.

High birth rates, is one of the top 2 or 3 reasons very poor countries stay very poor.

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