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  • Nice map, very clear.

    For anyone wondering, one of the biggest reasons for changing fertility is the education of women. There’s a provable trend that better educated women have fewer babies.

    Globally observed data is that: Women with little or no formal education tend to have more children. Women with secondary education have fewer. Women with university level education have the fewest children on average. So if you compared this map with one of women’s education, I suspect there’d be a fairly close match.

    That education also comes at a general trend of improved living standards for the whole population, so improving countries have an overall lessening fertility and the improved education is a product of that.

    (I’m not an expert by any means - I’m just someone who fell down a rabbithole some time ago and spent an evening trying to understand this correlation. )