[OrvalWintermute]

> rather than pursuing the conventional approach of relentless growth.

Disinformation.

Most of the world has a negative birth rate https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-rapid-decline-of...

[dieortin]

The world as a whole has a positive birth rate. The number of arbitrary land sections with negative or positive birth rates is quite irrelevant.

[OrvalWintermute]

This is incorrect.

2.2 per woman is replacement rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#/med...

Most of Africa is replacing their population but they have a higher death rate than many other places.

Everywhere else in the aggregate is negative with a few exceptions.

[slaw]

> According to World Bank data, the global fertility rate was 2.4 children per woman in 2019.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fer...

[OrvalWintermute]

you're mixing apples and oranges.

Replacement rate in a country with a good health system where people average longer life expectancies is 2.2 births per woman.

Replacement rate needs be much higher than 2.2 in a country with high infant mortality, long wars, etc, such as exists in much of Africa, where birth rates are the highest.

[slaw]

> As of 2020, 47 children under the age of one died for every 1,000 live births

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/infant-mortality-afri...

[OrvalWintermute]

That is pretty horrible. For comparison purposes......

Top 10 Countries with the Lowest Infant Mortality Rate (UNICEF 2020 - deaths per 1,000 live births):

Iceland — 1.54

San Marino — 1.56

Estonia — 1.65

Slovenia — 1.76

Norway — 1.79

Japan — 1.82

Singapore — 1.85

Finland — 1.88

Montenegro — 1.95

Sweden — 2.15

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/infant-mo...