Forty-Bot
11d ago
Around 1900, Europeans + European offshoots made up about 30%+ of the world population, today it's 7%. Higher education of women is strongly associated with low fertility
This has very little to do with European fertility and much more to do with Haber, Pasteur, and Jenner.
In 1900, Europe was already quite far into the industrial revolution, and was enjoying the benefits of improved nutrition, reduction in disease, and booming economic growth. This allowed their population to baloon, and do so before the rest of the world, which had not yet adopted European technologies and institutions. When the rest of the world did so, they also had a population boom.
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