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Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Childlessness has skyrocketed in Japan, and risen sharply in post-Cold War Eastern Europe. It has started rising again in the US, but not as dramatically. #demography #fertility #rstats code at github.com/schmert/bone...

$graph illustrating the fraction of women born in a given year and country (USA, Japan, or Czechia) who do not have children at age 40. Among women turning 40 recently, Czech women have slightly higher rates of childlessness than Americans (both near 15%), while Japanese women are nearly twice as likely to be childless at 40 (near 30%).$

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