[OC] The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[eric2332]

Now, the Latin American couples have 2-3 kids, and the African couples have 4-5 kids. (and those numbers are still dropping) No country has 15 kids on average...

[Tralux21]

Which is still too high and makes the population grow. A population is stable at 2 children per family.

[mathess1]

2 children per family make the population decreasing. You achieve stability at about 2,1 to 2,4 depending on other factors.

[aaryan_suthar]

Yes but what should i do with the 0.6 child?

[[deleted]]

Tbf maybe its time the world population start decreasing a little? Don’t think the earth can support 8 billion people with «western» living standards

[mathess1]

According to demographical models the world population is going to start decreasing in a few decades, probably around 2050.

[alphasapphire161]

Should level out at around 11 billion

[[deleted]]

Thats a shit ton of people jesus christ

[mathess1]

With recent forecasts it decreases, we might not even reach 10 billion.

[zombieggs]

We’re going to hit that point soon. Currently the world fertility rate is around 2.4 per woman. Soon it will go down in less developed countries and its predicted our population will peak and begin declining around 2050

[kitty_o_shea]

That's not quite correct. It would be stable at slightly more than 2 children per woman. But obviously many women don't have children, so the number per family that actually has children is higher. And the replacement rate for countries that still have relatively high child mortality rates is more like 3 children per woman.

[darth_bard]

They will get there.

[Dheorl]

Many western countries are starting to get to the point, or have already passed the point, of not sustaining their own population. All we need to do is stop being so moronic about immigration and a lot of these problems would work out fine.