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).

美国和英国则是例外，它们都有大量工作妇女，且生育率接近替代水平（不足部分有移民补充）。

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From fertility that is almost as high as one can get to below replacement level in 22 years: social change can hardly happen faster.

花了22年将生育率降到等值更换水平，我们不得不说没有比这个更快的社会变革了。

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Here, countries have escaped the fertility trap and the childbearing rate is around 1.8-not high, but higher than it was, and, in some cases, reaching the magic replacement level.

这里的国家逃离了生育陷阱，生育率大约1.8——不高，但已今非昔比，而且有时候达到了神奇的更替水平。

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France and most of the Nordic countries have embraced such policies and been rewarded with a rise in fertility close to replacement level.

ECONOMIST: Most of the rich world is short of babies

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).

ECONOMIST: Most of the rich world is short of babies

The reason is that widening replacement-level fertility means population growth is slowing down anyway.

ECONOMIST: Lower fertility is changing the world for the better