To: markomalley
Last I read the fertility rate of Italy was 1.41 and dropping. Even Japan is using financial incentives to encourage Japanese couples to have children because their fertility rate is even lower at 1.34. Russia is at 1.49. America is right at replacement level which is 2.1.
18 posted on
06/01/2010 11:09:21 AM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine; markomalley
True. And if you exclude immigrants and first-generation children of immigrants from the count, the US has been below replacement for the last 40 years.
20 posted on
06/01/2010 1:15:20 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
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