• OldTallGuy
    +4

    Looking at countries like Russia and Germany during the early years of the graphs, there are major reductions in babies being born during the 2 World Wars.

    • staxofmax (edited 8 years ago)
      +7

      It's amazing how much horror can be summed up within a concave segment of a chart.

      • FistfulOfStars (edited 8 years ago)
        +3

        If you press play on this interactive graph, you can see genocides happening. Chilling.

        But simultaneously it shows the correlation between higher life expectancy and lower fertility rates, and the general shift toward the lower right, which is a slight positive. I feel terrible for Africa though :(

        That Google public data explorer site is fascinating. Play around with the axes.