alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoFree contraception helps Finland reduce teenage abortions by 66%www.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkFree contraception helps Finland reduce teenage abortions by 66%www.reuters.comalphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate Finland is at 1.4 total fertility rate. Replacement rate is about 2.3.
minus-squareLinssiili@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoAre you trying to say that unwanted teen pregnancies are the answer to population decline?
minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoNot at all, but it’s interesting data that is relevant when discussing reproductive matters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoWhat are you concluding from the data you are posting?
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoIt isn’t relevant unless you’re trying to suggest countries should boost fertility rates with unwanted teen pregnancies.
minus-squareCancerMancer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoAll countries should be slowly reducing their population if we are to have any hope of surviving long-term.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoThat seems to happen naturally as most countries progress. As infant mortality decreases, and as nutrition and education improves, people seem to have fewer children.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate
Finland is at 1.4 total fertility rate. Replacement rate is about 2.3.
Are you trying to say that unwanted teen pregnancies are the answer to population decline?
Not at all, but it’s interesting data that is relevant when discussing reproductive matters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland
What are you concluding from the data you are posting?
It isn’t relevant unless you’re trying to suggest countries should boost fertility rates with unwanted teen pregnancies.
Nope
All countries should be slowly reducing their population if we are to have any hope of surviving long-term.
That seems to happen naturally as most countries progress. As infant mortality decreases, and as nutrition and education improves, people seem to have fewer children.