Falling birth rates in rich nations threaten collapse, while poorer regions boom... forcing tough questions on economics, culture, and why modern women choose not to have children...
Authored by Edward Ring: Throughout the developed world, birth rates have crashed.
But the “population bomb” that author Paul Ehrlich warned us about in the 1970s still exists; it’s just confined to the nations with the lowest per capita income. The correlation is almost perfect. The average number of children per woman in extremely poor nations is still extremely high.

For example, births per woman in Niger stand
at a world-leading 6.6, which means that every generation the
population of that nation will more than triple. Meanwhile, the per
capita income in Niger, even based on purchasing power parity, stands at
a dismal $2,084 per year. Exponential national population growth is
occurring across most of the African continent, where in 1950, the population was estimated at around 225 million compared to an estimated 1.5 billion today. By 2050, Africa’s population is estimated to rise to 2.5 billion and is not estimated to level off until 2100 at nearly 4 billion people.