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QuickStats: Expected Number of Births over a Woman's Lifetime — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1940–2018 | MMWR
Simon Kuestenmacher on Twitter: "Map shows whether a country has a fertility rate above or below 2.1 children per woman. Below 2.1 kids per woman a country's population shrinks (unless migration props
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50 years ago the average woman had five children; since then the number has halved - Our World in Data
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