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		navane 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard... Does anyone know why and when fertility replaced birth rate? It always grinds my gears as fertility is potential but birth rate is measured output.

Balgair 7 months ago [–]

Per what little I know of population studies, birthrate and fertility are the same. Fecundity is the potential to have offspring, but is an unmeasurable quantity.

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