tal , 2 hours ago

Having fewer children is something that is positively-correlated with a society being wealthy, rather than the other way around.

ourworldindata.org/…/children-per-woman-fertility…

The phenomenon of societies having their birth rate fall off as they become wealthier is called the demographic transition.

And further, that correlation exists across a number of axes:

• Time (that is, as societies have become wealthier, the number of children they have has dropped).

• Space (poorer societies today tend to have more children than wealthier societies do).

• Within a society. Poorer people in society tend to have more children. Here’s the US, and more-generally:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

  Income and fertility is the association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other. There is generally an inverse correlation between income and the total fertility rate within and between nations.[3][4] The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any developed country.