Why Fertility is Collapsing: Shocking Stats with @MoreBirths
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Summary
In this episode, we're joined by the founder of More Births on Twitter, Daniel, to talk about demographic collapse and pernatalism. We talk about the role of marriage and fertility rates, and how they differ across the world.
Transcript
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This is one thing that's really wonderful about my feed
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is that you can search at more births for whatever topic
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and there's a good chance that I will have written about it.
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No, you are the kind of the reference point encyclopedia.
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Oh yeah, and good marriages are like off the charts,
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that people aren't like knocking down the doors eager for this.
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And one interesting point is that those guys that got divorced
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are the ones that are lining up first to get remarried.
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where men are more willing to help domestically.
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Today, we are joined by more births on Twitter,
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And today, because you are the foremost person on Twitter,
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that's not especially talked about is marriage.
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And so part of it is people are just marrying late.
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Yeah, so here we can see the age at marriage in Europe.
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Oh, so for people who are watching this on audio,
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but it's, yeah, certainly it's very high in all of Europe.
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So yeah, I want to actually share something else.
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If they're counting every single marriage that happens,
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maybe when 70 year olds get remarried after they're widowed.
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So we talk about fertility collapse in Latin America
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and I think what people would be surprised by here
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Brazil and Chile are really unique on this graph.
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And fertility is dropping all throughout the 20s.
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fertility is already like way lower than it was.
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That's like trying to have kids with a grandmom.
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the doctor called it medically like a geriatric pregnancy.
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So people who say that marriage doesn't matter,