What should I swap my Honda Accord for?

[doodab]

but you haven't produced any facts, just a dodgy estimate that is based on various LEDCs behaving the same ways that long established, mainly Christian and democratic MEDCs have.

How do you explain Algeria? Egypt? Tunisia? Morocco? Lebanon? India? Malaysia?

All have seen > 40% falls in fertility rates following a corresponding fall in the death rate.

[vetran]

How do you explain Algeria? Egypt? Tunisia? Morocco? Lebanon? India? Malaysia?

All have seen > 40% falls in fertility rates following a corresponding fall in the death rate.

I'm not trying to, I'm just saying the low estimate as espoused by SAS is optimistic. But aren't most of those war torn / terrorist run? I suspect that the birth rate will go up when they feel safe, post war baby booms are common.

[vetran]

Someone has just pointed out this is a car thread I'm going to leave SASguru to his fantasies of what the wife is going to buy him and go back to the original thread. Actually I suppose I better do some work.

[Paddy]

How do you explain Algeria? Egypt? Tunisia? Morocco? Lebanon? India? Malaysia?

All have seen > 40% falls in fertility rates following a corresponding fall in the death rate.

I kid you not. Much infertility that part of the World NA-ME is due to ignorance especially as premarital sex is banned and the males get their first experiences with other males. The first question infertility doctors ask a woman is “What hole is your husband using”. Moreover, in place such as Egypt female genital mutilation is around 75%, this causes infertility. For those not familiar with the practice it involves girls of 6 years old or more having their clitoris and labia cut off with scissors or a knife and then sewing it up leaving a small hole for urine and blood. The husband, then cuts it open when it wants sex, it is then sewn back up.

[sasguru]

. Actually I suppose I better do some work.

What's the point? Someone as thick as you is hardly likely to effect anything of import.
Stay on here and entertain us with your illogical, imbecilic stream of consciousness "thoughts".

[doodab]

But aren't most of those war torn / terrorist run? I suspect that the birth rate will go up when they feel safe, post war baby booms are common.

Globally the fertility rate has dropped around 40% since the 50s, and that is despite the post war baby boom in "western" countries, which already had low birth rates. The falls in birth rates in the countries I mentioned started in the 50s, 60s, 70s and have been continuous since then.

While you might see a blip after a war long term political stability has a far stronger long term effect, namely falling death rates and a corresponding fall in birth rates. The increase in birth rates during the post 2nd world war "baby boom" in western countries is much smaller than the decline that happened during industrialisation.

The simple fact is, population growth isn't increasing exponentially at all. The rate of growth has been falling steadily since the 60s.