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TarikeNimeshab t1_j4vok51 wrote

It would be hell trying to read there.

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vrenak t1_j4wd75t wrote

Aarhus isn't handling all births of India, it's not going off every second.

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1945BestYear t1_j4wmc5f wrote

Either I've messed up my maths, or I should expect the Gong to go off every 11 minutes, assuming the 300,000-strong city had a perfectly proportional share of the 4-per-second birth rate of the entire globe.

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vrenak t1_j4wmsgr wrote

It definitely doesn't, Asia and Africa especially turns up that number a lot, afair the average woman has 1.8 kids here.

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1945BestYear t1_j4woyaj wrote

That's why I stated that assumption, I admit that it's napkin maths.

Although I don't really think birth rates to be that widely distributed anymore. Most of Asia and the Middle East is down to similar levels as Europe and the Americas at around 2 births per woman, many of those countries spent the last 70 years bringing child mortality and the birth rate down (Bangladesh for example is precisely 2.00 births per woman). Sub-Saharan Africa's birth rate is higher, most of the population growth in the next century will be there, but right now Africa's share of the global population isn't that large at 1.2 billion.

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