Others think the falling
birth rates are a good thing, maybe excellent, clearing the way to a brighter and more comfortable future.
According to the Nairobi-based Nation newspaper, the main reason for the
birth rate stagnation and increase is "erratic supply of contraceptives, particularly the pill, after donors, who provide over 80 percent of the funds, decided to channel a substantial amount of their resources toward HIV/AIDS treatment programs:' Consequently, the percentage of women using contraceptives stagnated at 39 percent, according to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
* The
birth rates for women aged 40-44 years rose 5% between 2002 and 2003 from 8.3 to 8.7 births per 1,000 women.
According to recent figures, the
birth rate in the United States is back close to replacement levels and, thanks to immigration, their population is on the rise, above the most optimistic projections made following the 1990 census.
* The
birth rate for females 15 to 19 years of age declined 2 percent to 48.5 per 1,000 in 2000, another record low for the nation.
If you're skeptical that institutionalized sexism can depress the
birth rate, just look at Japan, which has been suffering for years from what American University law professor Joan Williams, director of its gender, family and work program, calls the "rent-strike solution" to sex discrimination.
"The real story is that the average
birth rate in all developing countries is about four per person, down from six per person, but that rate needs to go to two per person to be stable, so we're halfway there."
The data did suggest that there is an inverse relationship between
birth rates and the structure of the economy.
This reversal may reflect, in part, the recent increases in the
birth rate (chart 8).
This
birth rate paranoia has regularly appeared throughout history in the writings and discourses of every fascist leadership including that of Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Likud Israel, and Imperial Japan.
Their research showed that the live
birth rate dropped by almost 8 percent in the second half of 2016.
Births in Taiwan ranged between about 310,000 to 340,000 from 1986 to 1997, with a crude
birth rate of above 15 per 1,000 people, but then started falling precipitously in 1998 to just over 200,000 births and crude
birth rates below 10 per 1,000 people by the mid-2000s.