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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True. I wonder about the effect of population decline on technology. It's a lot easier to raise very large sums of capital (> billions) for things like semiconductor fabs with higher population.
Concretely: suppose the world had 10 million people. Intel might well have stalled in the late 1970s or 1980s, because they couldn't raise the capital needed for better fabs (fab cost doubles I think every 4 years or so...)
