Birthrates have fallen in many developed countries as a result of improved education, health care, and access to contraception. As it stands the countries with the worst sanitation, access to food and water, access to healthcare and education are the countries with the highest birth rates. In many developing countries birthrates are higher in correlation with infant mortality rates. Child labour can also be a natural fact of life in rural populations making higher birthrates particularly beneficial to these communities. But moving forward, as some of these countries become more “developed”, an important question also arrises: Do we not wish for the development of adequate education, health care and contraception in these countries also? If this were the case these populations would have less children out of necessity or as an accident, conception could become more of a choice, and naturally their birth rate would decline just as it has in developed nations. Do you think that medications also contributes to decline in birthrate ?

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