Total fertility rate, EU vs USA

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  1. Why deliberately remove Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland from the visualisation when the data source included them?

    Edit:

    Just a huge thank you to the several idiots who have responded “because EU”. “It’s the way it is because it’s the way it is”. Lifechanging amount of insight there.

  2. Poland being in yellow proves that a single welfare program for having children is not enough to raise national fertility rates long-term.

  3. Malta: The country in the EU with the most oppressive abortion laws and one of the most conservative views on women’s rights.*

    Malta: Also the country with the lowest fertility rates in the EU.

    Probably not a coincidence.

    *Yes. That’s right Poland. You’re not the worst. Yet.

  4. My takeaway from this is all us European heathens need to rediscover Jesus (like that middle part of the US).

  5. Americans work more, have less maternity leave, and take less vacation and have more kids.

    EU socialism failing the people. Making them all sterile.

  6. Not surprising, US always had a higher fertility rate than most developed countries, combined with their immigration policy is why their population is not facing a big demographic crisis like Europe and east asia. Anglo countries are the only western countries which are not expected to decrease in population

  7. If you averaged out the US as a whole it would be firmly in the light green, which according to the graph is the average for Europe. Seems fairly misleading due to the number of low-population states in the dark green area. Fertlity in 2020 was 1.64 in the US vs 1.5 in the EU.

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