[FITZ]

Okay --instead I'll use a Muslim country's fertility rate --but I think Mexico's is one of the highest in the world. Muslim countries don't tend to have high standard of livings and they don't seem to have good retirement plans for their elderly ---the US still has one of the best but I don't think it's about birth rate one way or the other, it's on how much people save for their retirement and how efficiently people work.

[Torie]

Mexico's is about 2.4 heading rapidly towards 2.0. It is dropping like a rock. You really need to keep up to date in Kansas City, or is it El Paso?

[Torie]

You might also look up the fertility rate in the Muslim countries of Indonesia (which hosts the most of any single country) and Tunisia.