Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 22nd of February 2019 to The Sounding Line.
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The following chart, from Our World in Data, shows the Total Fertility Ratio (TFR) for every country in the world since 1950: The TFR is defined as “the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year,” roughly speaking, the average number of children a woman is likely to have in her life.
Fertility rates are lower today than they were in the 1950s in virtually every nation on Earth. Nonetheless, several countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, still have the average woman bearing more than six children. Accordingly, 19 of the 20 fastest growing countries in the world are in Africa (Iraq being the exception), with eight of them likely to see their populations at least double by 2060.
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I think you mean Afghanistan being the exception. At least it has the higher TFR. The population increase must be because a lot emmigrate from Afghanistan but it is the only non-Afircan in the top 20 TFR countries.
You are correct that it one of the highest TFR countries in the world and higher than Iraq. Perhaps the rate is declining faster though or perhaps life expectancy isn’t growing as fast or of that nature, because it doesn’t show up on the list of 20 fastest growing countries.
Interesting observation
Doesn’t stuff like that make one suspicious that none of these numbers are in any way actually accurate, let alone precise? You’re trying to rationalize away a clear red flag that something somewhere is not right, because you don’t seem to want to accept that it could all just basically be bullshit numbers used either for any number of propaganda or misinformation campaigns or maybe even to defraud the UN or EU/US government, i.e., white slaves, out of funds, etc.