• grue@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    They’ll be compensating for that with all the forced birth, though.

    • WanderingShadow@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Especially when you add in the increased maternal deaths that would be unlikely to compensate for the high mortality rate. Population growth in recent decades has been huge despite a major drop in the average number of children born to each mother.