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However, people in many countries around the globe are having fewer children and not due to reaching "subsistence level". Some of the biggest impacts in birth rates are education, particularly for women, and birth control, both things are the product of technology raising living standards. Birth rates are not declining today because of Malthusian cycles.

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Right, that's correct. "At this point" was in reference to the article, i.e. in ancient and medieval Europe. I should have been clearer.