Changing the perspective on low birth rates: why simplistic solutions won’t work
Stuart Gietel‐Basten, Anna Rotkirch, Tomáš Sobotka
Abstract
The news that birth rates hit record low levels in many countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas in the past decade was met with some alarm globally. More than half of the world's population lives in countries with a total fertility rate below two children per woman. The rate is below 1.5 in 46 countries (fig
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