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I think most people would agree that less people would be better (except the Labour and Coalition parties).

I could be accused of hypocrisy here given I have three children, but the reality is we need less people. Western countries have below replacement fertility rates. And by Western, I mean those with a Western standard of living - the Asian countries are particularly low with HK, Macau, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea andn Singapore close to one child per women per lifetime which implies a 50% fall in population each generation. If we overcome the Islamic, Jewish and Catholic aversion to birth control, we could get even lower birth rates. Even Indonesia at 2.18 is just above replacement rate and close to the good old US of A.

If you look at the fertility rates of countries that are higher than the global average then you are pretty much looking at Africa, India, a few Pacific Islands and some Middle Easter regimes such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Irag. More developed Middle Eastern countries such as Bahrain,Lebanon and Kuwait are below the global average.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate