The Daily Chart: Fertility Wars

Falling birthrates are suddenly mainstream news, even though leading demographers have been raising the alarm for years now. What population bomb? Population implosion is now the most likely long-term future for the earth if people don’t get busy again.

Here’s the U.S.:

Now here’s a curious subset: Israel versus Turkey and Iran:

Israel’s higher birthrate tends to be concentrated among conservative and orthodox Jews, which is why Israel’s political and social future is promising—if it can defeat its homicidal enemies, that is.

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