Fertility Rates: Empirical View

The article convincingly establishes an interesting point: the link between decreased infant mortality and lower fertility rate. That supports the wisdom of policies promoting better health care and improvement of the economy in developing countries especially where infant mortality is high.

The data show the world's population balance (births vs. deaths) is stabilizing. Leads to thoughts that non-growing populations along with technological advances could possibly enable humans to reduce conflicts (including warfare) that have frequently arisen re: access to resources. If there's enough food, energy, etc., for everyone, seems hardly anything to fight over.

OTOH could be argued that people like contention, even seek it out no matter how minor the matter. However, not adding to population pressures might at least help us avoid the more destructive forms of contention, that itself would be a positive.

(BTW FF on Win 8.1 works OK for this site.)

Is the website super slow for anybody? Scrolling takes several seconds on my desktop with an i7 on Chrome and Edge.