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Comment by jake-low

It absolutely is. See this animated chart of birth rate vs child mortality rate since 1960 (press the play button in the lower right).

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#_state_time_delay:172;&mark...

African nations (blue bubbles) are lagging behind the rest of the world, but the trend is clear: declining infant mortality results in declining birth rate, often with a delay of just a single generation.

parent jake-low 8 years ago

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