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by flossly 18 days ago
Is fertility so important?

Maybe the other western countries are equally infertile, but just allowed many immigrants in (which counts are population expansion) that also have more children on average.

How are Japan and Korea holing out? They are further down the infertility down-spiral.

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Yeah, it's pretty important if you are interested in the continued existence of your society
Most popular boys name, per place:

- Warsaw: Nikodem

- Oslo: Mohammad

- Berlin and Brandenburg: Mohammed

- England as a whole: Muhammad

Mind you that the names top these lists in spite of usually being present in there in multiple spelling versions. E.g. if all different spelling versions of Muhammad were combined it would top the Dutch statistics as well.

That's because Muslims have their naming concentrated on a single name so much that anywhere you have a sizable number of Muslims, the most popular name in that place is Mohammed, even though most people aren't named Mohammed.

We should be asking why Muslims avoid Warsaw. That's odd.