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Originally posted by fabbriche
Population growth generally affects the income and wealth of a country. More population means less resources to go around. When the population becomes too big, starvation, disease, poverty, and famine are inevitable. Tha'ts why developed countries usually have stable or low population growth rate. And overpopulated countries tend to be poor no matter how rich they are in resources. The only rich countries with more than 100 million population are the USA and Japan.
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It's the other way around.
In poverty, diseases, war, a kid just died because the head went down in a rice field,... parents tends to increase their amount of kids to compensate the risk of losing them to ensure there are still enough left. Because in countries without a welfare system providing pensions, taking a cut from your children income is your pension. More children means that you don't have to "tax" their income too heavy. No children left means no pension.
A kid in a poor agricultural place only needs food (grown in your field) and provides labour. This means the kids are making money for the family. More kids, more money made.
A kid in a high living standard place is expensive and the amount of children is limited by economics. Child benefit was invented by the employers, the bosses, to increase the amount of workers to ensure they can keep telling you "You don't want to work for this low, crappy, wage? For your position, there is are 10 others waiting to snatch your place!".
The only way to lower birth rate is raising the living standard to such a level that the child becomes expensive for the parents.
