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That was also concluded by Hans Rosling: the higher the education of people, the fewer kids they have. Best way to address overpopulation is by increasing education worldwide. https://www.teesche.com/bookshelf/hans_rosling_factfulness

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I wonder if Rosling’s conclusions are confounded. The human and environmental systems in which we swim are complex, not simple. Education being the key driver of population numbers strikes me as overly simple.

It's more likely you're imagining an over simplified version of Rosling's "conclusions".

He has presented hours of thoughts on data spanning multiple decades from countries across the globe and comments identified correlations.

Education being highly correlated with reduced population growth is a data confirmed observation, and not a declaration of prime causation.

That would seem a fair insight.

But then wonders what the drivers are.

And some muslim comunities deliberately prohibid female education as a support for this theory.

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