One notable exception was the late Jacques Cauvin, who, in the seventies, proposed that an early form of religion a cult of the bull and the fertility goddess had fostered a fertility-oriented world view that eventually engendered the shift to agriculture.
Richer countries on average have lower fertility rates so as the world becomes richer fewer children are born.
Israeli Jewish women have the highest fertility rate in the Western world with an average of three children per woman.
So the two countries, South Korea and Japan, with the largest number of patent applications per capita have extremely low fertility rates, indeed two of the lowest fertility rates in the entire world.
The majority of healthcare consumption occurs after the age of 40, and the percentage of the population above the age of 40 is expected to grow exponentially as lifespan increases and fertility falls in the developed world.
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However, the majority of women, especially in the developing world, are still unable to control their fertility.
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Dr Colin McClung, ex-IRI, was co-recipient of the World Food prize in 2006 for this soil fertility work.
The law was drafted and passed amid concerns that Italy had become one of the world's most liberal countries regarding assisted fertility.
The main concern of demographers in their heyday (the 1970s and 1980s) was high fertility and the total number of the world's people.
Obama and his advisers do not care that Jewish fertility rates are the fastest rising in the world.
However, the fall in fertility is already advanced in most of the world.
Gwenda Burns, Scottish co-ordinator of the Infertility Network, is calling for an acceptable waiting time in each health board area, and fairness for all those who need help with their fertility, which has been recognised as an illness by the World Health Organisation.
Another factor may be the impact of density, which, Cox demonstrates, tends to depress fertility rates not only here in the United States, but through much of the world.
Shanghai reported fertility of just 0.6 in 2010 probably the lowest level anywhere in the world.
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