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    Irische Gesamtfruchtbarkeitsrate 1961 – 2024

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    2. NakeDex on

      Fertility rate and birth rate are not the same thing. Just because people aren’t having 2-4 kids doesn’t mean they *can’t*.

    3. InformalInsurance455 on

      Why have we so many people posting about this recently? Smacks of astroturfing.

    4. Hi_Doctor_Nick_ on

      TFR is not a good measure of actual births/fertility because of the way it’s calculated. If demographics are changing, and birth rates are changing differently in different demographics, it gives a very skewed view of actual birth rates. The inclusion of a “replacement level” line on a TFR graph shows a total lack of understanding of what TFR measures by the author.

    5. caffeinated-glory on

      What I take away from this is we need more nuns and priest teaching sex ed.

    6. nursewally on

      I’m don’t have a clue in relation to this topic so forgive my ignorance, but surely people whose fertility ability is being tested as people who may be having trouble conceiving?

      Would this not skew the results?

    7. LordyIHopeThereIsPie on

      Some of this is due to fact the rate of babies born to teenagers has reduced significantly due to better LARC, access to abortion and teens having less sex than in previous decades.

    8. TheCunningFool on

      I’m somewhat surprised we dipped below replacement level as far back as 1990. I assumed that had happened far more recently than 35 years ago.

    9. Hoker7 on

      Interesting how it dipped and rose between the 90s and around 2010. We’re wealthy now and the finances of the country are good, but there’s been so many long term issues from the way the crash was dealt with. What would the fertility rate be like if we hadn’t let construction crash and we had a decent housing market?

      There’s so many knock on effects. Younger people live at home longer, have less independence, take longer to meet someone, they wait to have kids because they don’t have stability in their housing situation, they have less kids as a result of that (if they are able to) and probably being more overwhelmed as less independent than if they hadn’t lived at home. And further along, kids from smaller families are more likely to only want a small family too. Then there’s all the many other issues around demographics because of this.

    10. Shazz89 on

      Its almost as if having to spend every penny you earn to buy a house impacts your ability to afford to have children 🙀

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