ELI5- Why do people in poorer countries have more children than those in developed countries?

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ELI5- Why do people in poorer countries have more children than those in developed countries?

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Answer 1

Less education for woman. This probably the best single predictor of it, more educated and career oriented woman will have kids earlier and tend to have more kids as well. That’s why even though Scandinavian countries provided crazy amount of benefit for woman, and Singapore paid their citizen to have more kids, it’s failed.

It is not necessarily bad things though