A truly remarkable map. The highest fertility rates in Europe are barely at replacement level. Most of Europe is far below. Interesting how much between-country variance there is.https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1138866057047945217 …
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The France/Spain and France/Italy differences seem implausibly large. Could it be a difference in how they're measured?
Maybe. Economically those countries really have fared very differently though. So it's not implausible.
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Not sure what to make of the differences in GDP/capita (28k Spain, 31k Italy, 38k France). And besides, I'd expect poorer countries to have more children. Something like poor->less education->more kids. Maybe my intuition is off there.
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I think it's also worth pointing out that the poor colour scheme chosen for the map could be slightly deceiving here. There is no reason for this to use a diverging colour scheme, and the two endpoints are almost indistinguishable to boot.
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