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Composer-Fragrant t1_j3gnrf1 wrote

Fertility rates would make way more sense to compare, the graph currently gives very little actual insight. However still not sure what the point is.

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glmory t1_j3ik3oy wrote

Total births is a better number. You don’t supply an army from your birthrate, you supply it from the number of babies who were born a few decades ago.

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Composer-Fragrant t1_j3ktiu8 wrote

If you want to compare the size of their armies or reserve, you could do that without a time series, as a gross number or percentage of population. If you want to compare the development of fertility over time, potentially as a cause of events, as well as being able to compare this development between nations of different population, fertility rates is the way to go.

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