Richer countries on average have lower fertility rates so as the world becomes richer fewer children are born.
Obama and his advisers do not care that Jewish fertility rates are the fastest rising in the world.
Fertility rates in America have plummeted, and they show no sign of inching up, despite what the Bureau assumes.
Western European countries have low fertility rates, below the replacement rate of 2.1.
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But the rock-bottom fertility rates in the tigers give the problem particular potency.
Properly accounting for demographics is always tricky since in theory folks can alter retirement ages, fertility rates, work-school balance, etc.
Until the mid-1980s, America and Europe also both had stable populations, declining fertility rates and growing numbers of old people.
In fact, they lower their fertility rates more slowly than the wealthy.
Where all these things are present, fertility rates tend to go up.
But for now it is firmly in place, and very low fertility rates still prevail, especially in the richest parts of the country.
Admittedly, Africa is lagging behind Asia by about 20 years, and the continent's fertility rates are still high, but the trend is clear.
And whereas the fertility rates of Israeli Arabs, Gazans and residents of Judea and Samaria are all trending downward, Jewish fertility is consistently rising.
With sensible policies and international support, these very poor countries could do themselves a huge favour by reducing fertility rates sharply through voluntary means.
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The idea was that if women had access to education and higher salaried jobs, they would choose to have smaller families, thus lowering fertility rates.
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Higher fertility rates and immigration produce not only a larger population but a society that is younger, more mixed ethnically and, on balance, more dynamic.
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Some eastern countries like Latvia now have fertility rates approaching 1.2.
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The advocacy group also knew that fertility rates in other developing countries had declined at a similar rate between 1970 and 1990 without a one-child policy.
Similarly, points out Eric Kaufmann, in many countries, fundamentalist religious groups have fertility rates two or three times higher than the societies in which they live.
Already, several European nations have fertility rates even more modest than Japan's (though they still have a lower ratio of elderly, due to shorter life spans).
With Jewish immigration and fertility rates rising, negative Arab immigration rates, and decreasing Arab fertility rates, the long-term projections for Israel's demographic viability are all positive.
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The obligation to retirees is skyrocketing due to lengthening lifespan, and the number of workers contributing into such funds is declining due to below-replacement fertility rates.
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What this could all mean for the Chinese government is that something a bit stronger than incentives may be needed in order for fertility rates to rise again.
The target reductions in fertility rates were reached long ago.
The odd ones out are America and Britain, which both have lots of women at work and fertility rates close to replacement level (with immigration making up the rest).
He added it appeared that the authors had not compared their sperm data and fertility rates with those of infertile men with varicoceles who did not have the embolisation procedure.
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.
Economic growth would be around 3 % per year, as populations became richer they would see a fall in fertility rates, just as countries which became rich in the past did.
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Dramatically improve those mortality tables and fertility rates drop.
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They found that in contradiction to the Palestinian and Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics forecasts, while Jewish fertility rates are on a steep and consistent incline, Arab fertility rates are steadily declining.
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