'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates

[End Times]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

The study, published in the Lancet, followed trends in every country from 1950 to 2017.

In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. The fertility rate all but halved to 2.4 children per woman by last year.

But that masks huge variation between nations.

The fertility rate in Niger, west Africa, is 7.1, but in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus women are having one child, on average.

In the UK, the rate is 1.7, similar to most Western European countries.


Also:

https://www.france24.com/en/20181109-baby-boom-nations-bust-others-study

[keehah]

Googling "what is the role of government", after the definition of government is:

What is the role of a government?'To promote the general Welfare'Top two measures of general welfare, say from a god's eye view of things would be the health and population of the people.

For the first, look around, of all the mammals on earth, general population wise, which are the least healthy? Western humans.

For the second:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source–sink_dynamics

Source–sink dynamics is a theoretical model used by ecologists to describe how variation in habitat quality may affect the population growth or decline of organisms.Since quality is likely to vary among patches of habitat, it is important to consider how a low quality patch might affect a population. In this model, organisms occupy two patches of habitat. One patch, the source, is a high quality habitat that on average allows the population to increase. The second patch, the sink, is very low quality habitat that, on its own, would not be able to support a population. However, if the excess of individuals produced in the source frequently moves to the sink, the sink population can persist indefinitely. Organisms are generally assumed to be able to distinguish between high and low quality habitat, and to prefer high quality habitat.

So from a basic important biological measure, government of the peoples in Africa offers their citizens higher quality source habitat than the low quality habitats currently offered to its citizens struggling (and failing) for survival under western governments.