Why do countries like Sweden and Italy have low birth rates?

[QUOTE="Lonelynight"][QUOTE="gamerguru100"] Blame our politicians, not us. gamerguru100

Since they are Epidemiologically developed countries.

I am going to go ahead and assuse they have already moved from the late stationary phase into the declining phase, marked by the decreased number of both births and deaths.They probably have a near stationary growth pyramid.

Education, socioeconomic, marriage and family planing all play a major role here.

Since they are Epidemiologically developed countries.

I am going to go ahead and assuse they have already moved from the late stationary phase into the declining phase, marked by the decreased number of both births and deaths.They probably have a near stationary growth pyramid.

Education, socioeconomic, marriage and family planing all play a major role here.

TehFuneral

[QUOTE="TehFuneral"]

Since they are Epidemiologically developed countries.

I am going to go ahead and assuse they have already moved from the late stationary phase into the declining phase, marked by the decreased number of both births and deaths.They probably have a near stationary growth pyramid.

Education, socioeconomic, marriage and family planing all play a major role here.

Darkman2007

i compared Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, USA, China and Japan

overall decline, except at the moment increase in Israel (with the highest rate of 3.03) and USA has a slight uptick.

not that surprised at all by how astronomically high Saudi Arabia's is, have so so many cousins to prove it :P

I wonder if 2.33 is supposed to be that magic number that maintains the population, but i don't know if it takes into account immigration and emmigration. Like many of Europes, and America's economy is maintained by having a positive influx of immigrants. Whereas Saudi Arabia and Japan have extremely hard immigration laws. Israel allows for immigration but also has a positive fertility rate regardless if immigration is taken into account.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="TehFuneral"]

Since they are Epidemiologically developed countries.

I am going to go ahead and assuse they have already moved from the late stationary phase into the declining phase, marked by the decreased number of both births and deaths.They probably have a near stationary growth pyramid.

Education, socioeconomic, marriage and family planing all play a major role here.

SaudiFury

i compared Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, USA, China and Japan

overall decline, except at the moment increase in Israel (with the highest rate of 3.03) and USA has a slight uptick.

not that surprised at all by how astronomically high Saudi Arabia's is, have so so many cousins to prove it :P

because godless liberals use condoms and abort their babies

Don't know, there are too many variables. Perhaps the countries put more emphasis on waiting to have sex? I have never been to either of those countries so cannot say. I think The Major Mayor is from Sweden so you should ask him, he might know something.

Cost of living, contraceptives, and no they are not all hot as you may think.

With all the hot women in those countries, you'd think the guys would be banging them like crazy.

inb4 they're all just using contraceptives

I'm sure dudes would want to have long term relationships and kids with such good looking women, yes?

gamerguru100

[QUOTE="Lonelynight"][QUOTE="gamerguru100"] Plus the world really doesn't need seven billion people. The Earth doesn't have enough resources for seven billion people to live like Americans and Western Europeans. gamerguru100

It has nothing to do with politician, look at your typical American suburb with rows and rows of 4000 sq ft homes, you'd know the reason that the world can't support 7 billion people is not because of politicians.

I read in a cosmo or something that it isn't unusual for people in Italy to live at home until they're in their 30s. Since people are now only having one or two children instead of a half dozen, this generation isn't pumping out the kids like they used to be, and it's taking them longer to do it. Dunno why really, but that could be a possibility.XilePrincess

[QUOTE="gamerguru100"]

With all the hot women in those countries, you'd think the guys would be banging them like crazy.

inb4 they're all just using contraceptives

I'm sure dudes would want to have long term relationships and kids with such good looking women, yes?

Serraph105

[QUOTE="gamerguru100"][QUOTE="Lonelynight"] Americans and western europeans need to stop being selfish ****Ncsoftlover

It has nothing to do with politician, look at your typical American suburb with rows and rows of 4000 sq ft homes, you'd know the reason that the world can't support 7 billion people is not because of politicians.

1) People want to have good job before they have children which means they might be around 30 when they have their first child.

2) In order to guarantee that your children have good lives growing up it is unwise to have too many of them because you can't guarantee that they get everything you want to give them.

3)Also many people live in small apartments and they don't want to raise their children in a small apartments so they wait for when they get bigger living place or they have 1 child that can live in the apartment comfortably