[nullbyte808]

I hate the cost excuse. People in Africa have kids with no money. You would think a country with historic low birth rates would have a good welfare system for moms.

[trhway]

>I hate the cost excuse. People in Africa have kids with no money.

In 2022, the infant mortality rate in Sub-Saharan Africa was 49 deaths per 1,000 live births, while the infant mortality rate in the United States was 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. Cost isn't excuse. Cost is what for example decreases infant mortality. And that is just the start what the cost does, all the way to the better education and beyond.

[Gibbon1]

You look at birthrates in Africa and they're also falling fairly rapidly. The better run places are the larger the drop.

[spacebanana7]

It's a tarpit because it's so intuitive and tends to resonate with our personal experience - but it absolutely fails to explain the data.