Why?
Posted on: January 5, 2020 at 21:52:58 CT
JeffB
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Each woman would need on average to bear about 2.1 children for a population to remain constant.
Some of those children would die young, or be infertile, of course.
A husband & a wife would need to have at least 2 children to keep the numbers in each generation equivalent, no?
In the US the average has dropped to ~ 1.7. At those levels would be about a 19% drop in population every generation if immigration & emigration were equal.
Edited by JeffB at 21:57:18 on 01/05/20