On: US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century a...

[jdietrich]

You may wish to reconsider your hypothesis after viewing this chart:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?t...

[r00fus → jdietrich]

The data in fact shows the reality - when affordability was great, people had kids, when it's bad, people don't.

Everything is expensive as hell these days.

[fakedang → jdietrich]

I'd be interested in per country data for this information. Last I checked, nearly every country was at 0.75-2 tops, save for the world average being skewed heavily by some usual suspects.

[r00fus → fakedang]

Use the side bars to select individual countries instead of "World".

[fakedang → r00fus]

Thanks. And yep, usual suspects. Rotw is at <1-2.

Interesting to see the fall in the GCC countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc. The charts show them at ~2, even though those governments actively provide subsidies for citizens to bear more children. iirc they used to be MUCH higher.

Have an Emirati friend who has 5 kids on a government job (he lives with his parents, as is expected culturally, so that obviously makes a difference).

[stemlord → jdietrich]

What about the data would necessitate reconsideration?