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Originally posted by Zoraluv
any reason why they're dying faster?
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It's all about the price of a child. In my country the total costs of a child from 0 to 25 years is between 170k and 220k euro. It's the price of a house or a Ferrari.
Higher living standards, higher expectations,... means parents have to give a lot to make their kids remain competitive in society. In Japan it's extreme in how many things a kid should learn outside school.
In a poor country it costs the parents a handful of rice per day per child and can use them as workers to grow more rice. A child over there is more like free labour than a cost.
The lack of a state run pension system, they have to get their pension by taxing their own kids. To ensure that there are enough tax paying kids to support the old parents, they make half a dozen to a dozen kids.
War, famine, diseases,... aren't effective enough to control the birthrate, for every child they lose, they simply make 2 more to ensure that there will be enough remaining for paying their old days.