Worldwide Decline in Birth Rates

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According to a longitudinal study in the Lancet:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46118103

The study, published in the Lancet, followed trends in every country from 1950 to 2017.
In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. The fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year.

But that masks huge variation between nations.

The fertility rate in Niger, west Africa, is 7.1, but in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus women are having one child, on average.

Advanced economies are seeing almost universal decline whereas it’s the opposite for LEDCs.

Edit: link to published article (open access) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance...5/fulltext