Keep staying ignorant and poor then, what else can I say...

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Cant help crazy.

- Lack of education leading to lives not aimed at profesionnal careers like in countries that are more developed

- Women's inaccessibility to proper/equal education and higher education, limiting her ability to choose what she wants/can do in her society
- Women's roles still are aimed at doing household things and taking care of the kids (stay at home moms, just like it was the case in more developed countries until not too long ago)

- Lack of sexual education / access to contraceptives
- Religion/Spirituality can play a role here
- Population is more rural than urban. Rural populations usually work in agriculture, breeding/raising animals, other physical tasks. Having children is a way to guarantee labor force for those families. It also represents a higher general income for them since they'll have more children to help out.

Looking at that, white people are going to be extinct in a few hundred years.

As many have mentioned it's mostly the lack of contraceptives (most of the time religious in reasoning) as well as the need for children for labor.

It's not as easy as some of you make it out to be. High fertility rates are often coherent with social and cultural circumstances such as the perception of children as security in old age etc. There are many third world countries, in which you DO NOT have any insurance systems. Premarital sex and teenage pregnancies are of course still significant reasons for the high birth rates though

This is also a good point.

But in fact, birth rates and natural growth in Africa for example are quite similar in rural and urbanized regions due to the higher death rates in rural regions. Urban inhabitants have better provision of medicine and basic services i.e. sanitation, clean water etc.The urbanization level stands at about 40% and 90% of the urbanization in the next decades will happen in the third world (with Africa's cities growing at the fastest pace).

+ Africa's birth rates haven't declined much in the last decades either. Latin America, Asia and Africa for example started out with quite high birth rates respectively. Asian and LA rates started declining in the early 1970s standing at approximately 2.3 births per woman - africa more than doubles that with 5,1 bpw which is massive!

The most logical answer.

1. Insecure about future/family planning
Poor countries don't have good social security, especially for older people. Parents need many children to take care of them later.

2. Insecure about kids' future
There's a big risk that one of your children will die before they get kids, so they get more kids to secure the family's future

3. No/bad education for females
General rule of thumb for women: the less education, the more kids. Education gives women a path to life outside family life, by building a career for example. That makes them less likely to get many kids, and being busy for more years also makes women less inclined to get kids during adolescence.

4. No money
for abortion, for anti-conception, for condoms, etc.

5. High risk of dying
Because so many people die before they turn 40 (due to AIDS or Malaria for example), it's better to get kids at a young age.



In 100 years from now Africa's population will be as big as Asia's.

Poverty, Contraception access and Religion.

The three are also linked so it's hard to unravel and pinpoint it to just one.

Cuz sex is free, but food isn't.

Well when people have sex they reproduce. When someone has sex frequently, more babies pop out. In conclusion, people are/must be having a sh!t ton of sex!