Lydia Leftcoast
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Fri Feb-29-08 04:24 PM
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21. Replacement level is 2.1 children per couple |
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However, one of the posters above was right: the countries with the highest number of educated women all have declining birth rates, sometimes below replacement level, including Italy and Japan.
There is a direct correlation between the average educational level of a country's women and its birth rate. Countries where most women are illiterate (e.g. Afghanistan) have high birth rates. Countries where almost all women have at least a high school education (e.g. Japan, with a 90% high school graduation rate) have low birth rates.
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