(October 26, 2016 at 5:42 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(October 26, 2016 at 4:22 pm)abaris Wrote: You know, 1.4 billions of people. Out of - what's our overall number right now - at least more than 8 billions. China alone comes close to the numbers of muslims. I don't see you fretting over them, although they're buying resources and companies left, right and center.
Simplistic argument stays simplistic. Demographics are in favor of Asia and not the Middle East.
Do the Chinese take 4-8 wives and have several children with each?
Most Muslims don't, in my experience. The income simply isn't there for them in the countries they live in. And in nations where there is the income, the birthrate almost always declines.
One thing I learnt in PhysAnth back in college was that there's a pretty close inverse relationship between poverty and birthrate. Poorer people tend to have more children (suspected to be a hedge in order to increase family income by providing more working hands in the house, or a hedge against living out one's old age with little or no support). Bottom line: the richer the country, the smaller the family size.
In other words, less to do with religion than economics.
