My take on the "African fertility" debate is that it doesn't matter. All the things that lower fertility are things that are also good for other reasons - poverty reduction, women's education, lower child mortality. Thus, there should be no policy debate here.
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African child mortality is falling, education is rising, GDP growth is robust, and - just as you'd expect - fertility rates are falling.pic.twitter.com/lFUbrBLLir
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What Africa needs is simply to continue on its current path of getting richer and healthier! Don't overthink it. (end)
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This means India is boned, right? It will face demographic collapse long before it gets rich.

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It'll make it harder to provide for the elderly, but otherwise shouldn't be a big problem.
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Or, rather, not much *bigger* of a problem than everywhere else.
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The inverse correlation between family wealth and fertility has been taught in schools since I was a kid. Are people confused? Did someone important say something dumb today?
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That x axis is crying out for a log scale
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