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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

female education, is the only constant factor in lowering birth rates across the world.

These do not correlate when one considers that people in the poorest and developing coutnries and families produced the most babies, not because of the lack of education, but in order for survival.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Nope, it's in the poorest countries this correlation was discovered. When poor girls in developing countries have a full education they have smaller families. Because having more mouths than you can feed is not the educated choice.

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Bah, we needed universities to know that XD

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The problem is income inequality, not education

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Nope, there's no correlation with income across cultures like there is with female education and smaller families.

Poor and rich a like will have big families if the women don't even realise they have a choice in the matter.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But you're not providing any evidence, whereas there is plenty of evidnce about the increasing number of children in lower income families. India is perhaps the best example, contrasted with US statistics, But if we consider just the US:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-family-income-in-the-us/