Just had a quick glance at a page that lists the overall fertility rates in every country in the world.
Want to know which ones are healthily above the 2.1 replacement rate?
Can you guess?
countries with five or more:
Afghanistan 6.64 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Angola 6.27 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Benin 5.08 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Bhutan 4.67 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Burkina Faso 6.41 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Burundi 6.48 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Chad 5.56 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 6.37 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Djibouti 5.23 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Ethiopia 5.1 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Gambia, The 5.21 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Gaza Strip 5.64 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Liberia 5.94 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Madagascar 5.24 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Malawi 5.74 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Mauritania 5.78 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Mayotte 5.69 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Mozambique 5.29 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Niger 7.37 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Nigeria 5.45 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Oman 5.7 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Rwanda 5.37 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe 5.53 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Senegal 5 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Sierra Leone 6.01 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Somalia 6.68 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Yemen 6.49 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Zambia 5.31 children born/woman (2007 est.)
Notice something they all have in common?
These people have done such a great job of running their little desert n' mud hut hellholes, I'm sure it's going to be a GREAT new world
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"reins" does not have a "g" in it.
Ugh!
Can't.
Spell.
2 comments:
I was in a cab driven by a Somali man the other day. He recited his paternal ancestry for me to the 40th generation. He told me all about wedding customs in Somalia, his property holdings in Minnesota, the numerous cousins and polygamous brothers he is supporting through university, his tribe's requirements that he donate a certain amount of money to schools and hospital construction back home, and showed me pictures of his fiancee. I sat there and thought, at least I can not be a sore loser, I guess. - Karen
By the way Hilary, how many children do you have?
-- Janet, trying to do my part. I have two daughters, (4 miscarriages has left me unable to have more.)
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