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Lazarou Monkey Terror ๐๐๐@infobeautiful Elon Musk and Trump will have bucked that trend I fear.....
๊ฎ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฑ๐ง@infobeautiful and much fewer are born at all
Joe@liilliil nope! Even if birthrates are declining in some countries, annual births are still increasing, which makes sense if you think about it; as long the birthrate is positive, each generation is going to be larger than the previous.
@jy4m it only grows where mortality is high
Rickd6@infobeautiful @liilliil with the overall growth in population I believe the number of births has in fact increased (population of 8 billion vs ~5) modern medical improvements (vaccines etc) and improvements in sanitation being the main factors.
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It makes sense: given population growth, the total birth rate has increased, while the number of children per woman has decreased.
Sean Lynch@Rickd6 @infobeautiful @liilliil
5 Billion was the world population in the early 1990's. In 1820 it was around 1 Billion.
You are absolutely correct. Total births in 1820 was between 20 and 30 million, today around 140 million. The average births per woman is down from about 5.5 to about 2.5.
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I think a much lower proportion are born compared to the number of people, not that the total number is lower.
But this is a good thing, we don't need to have 4 children hoping 2 survive to adulthood, you can just have 2 and be fairly certain they'll outlive you!
Vicente โ@infobeautiful the color scheme seems backwards
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For anyone interested : British rule in India, WW2 and the great leap forward are also visible
For anyone interested : British rule in India, WW2 and the great leap forward are also visible
David Schmidt@infobeautiful Would be interesting to correlate this with the numbers of children born today compared to the past.
The chart starts at 1820, there were between 20-30 million births per year in that era. This compares to about 140 million per year currently. Many more babies now but that might not be the point you are making.
In 1820 there were about 5 births per woman, compared to about 2 1/2 per woman today.
World population was about 1 Billion in 1820, and around 8.1 Billion today.
@SeanPLynch @infobeautiful I wasn't aware that the actual number per woman is just half, not less. But I guess worldwide is a different reality than in industrially developed countries.
Yes, it looks like it ranged from about 2.5 to 7.5 depending on how developed the country was. From the OP, we can see how many didn't make it to adulthood.
I remember my father telling about his brother Gene dying from scarlet fever when they were kids.
@SeanPLynch @infobeautiful What is the range today? Probably sth. like 0.5 to 4.5?!
@individual8 @infobeautiful
Looks like Thailand is lowest at about 0.98, and Congo gets the highest at 5.49. USA is 1.64.
Looks like Thailand is lowest at about 0.98, and Congo gets the highest at 5.49. USA is 1.64.
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@SeanPLynch @individual8 @infobeautiful Gapminder had some excellent data visualisation tools that explore this information in detail:
Golden Bunny of Destiny ๐ฏ@infobeautiful How long before the anti vac movement reverses the trend?
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP ๐จ๐ฆ๐น๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ท ๐บ๏ธ#Trump is doing all he can to reverse that in America and abroad.
Mira@infobeautiful There was a reason why, in many societies, that children would not receive their true name until after the age of 5 or so
foundseed@infobeautiful nervously chuckling at the fact that the line stops at 2020
LarisSubjected to change soon due to escalating climate catastrophe.
Third spruce tree on the leftThe blip in 1918: Spanish Flu/influenza pandemic. 50M dead.
The only reason its called the Spanish Flu while it hit everywhere - it didn't even start in Spain. Spain was neutral during WWI, so it had no media censorship, so reporters were talking about the flu all the time; elsewhere (at least in Europe) you had a blackout on flu news as a matter of keeping civil peace and disguising military preparedness, so numbers and news about it were kept on the down-low.
Sassinake! แ โช โฉ โyes, but that stopped in 2020
ArchaeoIain@infobeautiful is the rapid decline around 1960-65 due to measles etc vaccination?
Stefan 'lerothas' D. 
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Is it? How is the percentage of children in poverty evolving?
Is it? How is the percentage of children in poverty evolving?
Knightmare@infobeautiful going back up in the US now.
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