Muslim Birth Rate Drops

Friday, January 28th 2011 - 14:27 UTC

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Decreasing birth rates will slow the world’s Muslim population growth over the next twenty years, reducing it from 2.2% a year in 1990-2010 period to 1.5% up until 2030 a new study says. Read full article

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xbarilox
”By 2030, Muslims will number 2.1 million or 23.2 percent of the population in Israel -- including Jerusalem but not the West Bank and Gaza -- after 1.3 million (17.7 percent) in 2010.“ Was Abraham a Jew? Nope, he wasn't. What was he? As if Israel belonged to the Jews and Muslims were a race or an ethnicity and aliens in Israel.

”Muslim Birth Rate Drops“ What is that supposed to mean? Muslim is not even a race/ethnicity. How can you say that Muslim birth rate drops? You're so scared of Muslims, that's amusing haha. Is there a special category for ”Muslim babies”? Is a baby born a Muslim? My parents can be Muslims but that doesn't mean I'll be a Muslim baby! إن شاء الله
Jan 28th, 2011 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if (1) she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime, and (2) she were to survive from birth through the end of her reproductive life. It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time.

These top 20 ‘baby-producing nations’ each produce over twice the world average for all nations.
Some are ‘Muslim countries’; most are not:
Niger (7.75), Mali (7.29), Uganda (6.77), Afghanistan (6.53), Somalia(6.52), Burundi (6.33), Yemen (6.32), Burkina Faso (6.28), Congo(6.20), Angola (6.12), Ethiopia (6.12), Sierra Leone (5.88), Malawi (5.59), Benin (5.49), Chad (5.31), Rwanda (5.25), Guinea (5.18), Mozambique (5.18), Zambia (5.15).

But most are African and most are very poor:
GDP per Capita (PPP) average for these 20 countries is just $1,375, compared to the USA (PPP $46,900).

Elimination of poverty will reduce TFR, experience of history shows.
The Catch 22 is that high population density and low resource-base combined with low technology ‘causes’ more births.

Solutions:
1. Lower the population by birth control,
2. Allow it to lower by starvation, disease, emigration, etc.,
3. Increase the resource-base, level of education, etc.,
4. Introduce higher technology.

Unfortunately, human populations always grow to just exceed available resources.
There will always be poor in the world, but poor people in poor countries will always suffer most of all.
Jan 29th, 2011 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Typhoon
Using a tool known as “research”, it seems that muslims believe in “the Nation of Islam”. Their choice.

But it's not their birth rate that concerns me. It's their mortality rate. That really needs to rise!
Jan 30th, 2011 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
You are a bigot, Typhoon, and I trust that others on this site will cut you dead.
Jan 30th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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