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      4 months ago

      Ahem. I wonder if non-communist states are any different, or it’s just that birth rates dipped before/during a World War, and they were all climbing back up until ~the '80s?

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          Sorry, the last time I was commenting from the toilet. I’ve done some looking up:

          France:

          Spain:

          Germany:

          Italy:

          I mean, I know that 5 countries isn’t considered reliable statistics, I guess, but most of them are also on the rise in the given time period. Italy and a few other countries seemingly had a dip.

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              Which is a fair point. I’m not an expert by any means, but the change in population growth could have come from various effects: maybe it wasn’t the end of socialism, but the start of capitalism; maybe it wasn’t the start of capitalism, but a general uncertainty after the old system dissolved; maybe it was coming from a third source (see above); maybe it was a global phenomenon, which has been happening in developed countries ever since; I don’t know, maybe it was The Shining coming out in 1980.