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I’m so old I remember when everyone believed the “population bomb” nonsense, so it is with no small sense of irony that among demographers the hot topic of the moment is rapidly falling fertility rates, to sub-replacement levels in most advanced industrialized nations. As I put it in my recent article for Civitas Outlook, it is possible that the last South Korean will be born some time late in this century. Here’s the latest from the world the last year in the EU:

Meanwhile, amidst these aggregate headline numbers, just which subgroups have the highest fertility rates in the EU? Here’s one hint: