poor people have more children, on average. How long has this been true?

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Did medieval peasants have more children on average than royalty? Or is this a modern phenomenon?

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I’m curious what your source is on this, as I think depending on how you define poor you might not find this is the case.

Do you mean globally poor or people in relative poverty in their respective nations or poorer nations when compared to those where people are better off. I think in each case the answer is likely to be different, and without looking at the numbers myself I’m not even sure it’s the case that poor people have more children.

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