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I surmise the following reasons:

Poorer populations have less access to sex education.

The government pays $850 a fortnight to a single mother, on top of a $5000 baby bonus and various other incentive schemes. Poor social classes see this as an easy means of money compared to working a "dead-end" job.

Maybe they have kids to escape their reality. People cope in different ways; drugs, drinking etc. Maybe they desperately want to live through their kids.



> Poorer populations have less access to sex education.

This is likely an accurate thesis based on macro and micro studies.

TLDR Education, empowerment (contraceptives), labor force participation = decline in fertility rate. Provide access to all of the above, fertility rate drops off.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-... (Fertility Rate: What explains the change in the number of children women have?)

Outside of Africa, there are only a handful of countries where the fertility rate is > replacement rate.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tim...




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