ELI5- Why do people in poorer countries have more children than those in developed countries?
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Lots of reasons. I’ll just list 3 that are very important and account for most of the reasons, but it is important to understand how all of these fit inter-connectedly and there isn’t just one reason. It is multiple societal factors.
1. People in countries with less money usually see kids as a resource to make more money through manual labor jobs. So, having more kids provides an economic advantage. In more developed countries this is rarely the case.
2. In less developed countries, women typically have little education and strictly defined gender roles. It is a fact that when women have more access to education and more social mobility then they tend to have less children.
3. Lack of sex education and access to contraceptives. Less developed countries typically struggle to inform their citizens how to have safe sex and/or provide access to common methods of controlling the birth rate in developed countries such as condoms, birth control, plan b, abortion, etc…
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