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[deleted] t1_jdn3703 wrote

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apez- t1_jdnbmvz wrote

Pretty ignorant take. India's birthrate was high in the 1900s which makes sense since the whole country was primarily an agrarian society which was also heavily exploited and in extreme poverty. Their birthrate right now is infact slightly below replacement level, which is the optimal rate for economic growth considering their young population.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272789/world-population-by-continent/

The only long term contributer left to world population growth is sub-saharan Africa. Every other continent is staying primarily the same, or even expected to fall, in population by 2100

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asdftimes7 t1_jdo13co wrote

>India's birthrate was high in the 1900s which makes sense since the whole country was primarily an agrarian society which was also heavily exploited and in extreme poverty.

The real reason was the sky high child mortality. No matter how many kids you had chances of having a few survive was low.

One of my great uncles had 14 kids. None survived. Another relative had twenty one of which nine survived.

My mother reckons child mortality was at least 50 percent. She is the only surviving child out of two siblings

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Spire_Citron t1_jdo55ep wrote

Yup. That's why people had so many kids. Then once child mortality rates drop, it can take a couple of generations for people to realise they can have fewer kids without much risk of ending up with them all dead.

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PurpleCheeseMama t1_jdoeicv wrote

My grandma was born pre-independance and she tells these stories about how the britishers used to just randomly take away the kids as slaves and some of them were seen again. And if the family participated in sort of pre-independance activities then all their kids would be whipped and killed right in of the parents. Considering she's not even 100 years old, it's just scary to imagine what would have happened to us if we still hadn't fought for freedom.

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mqtrysbeingstoic t1_jdn5m2z wrote

Lmao India's birthrate is slightly higher than France (0.2 Children more per woman) get outta here rascist

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Spire_Citron t1_jdo4upz wrote

Increasing access to education for girls actually does tend to reduce birthrates.

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