More murders than births? Women killing more babies than they give birth to?..

What about an imaginary (as in imaginary numbers) fertility rate?..

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
    163·
    7 hours ago

    More deaths than births. It just means more deaths than births. Not sure why you assume women need to kill babies for that to be a reality.

    • criitz@reddthat.com
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Fertility rate is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime. Deaths aren’t part of it

    • Da Bald Eagul
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Wouldn’t that just be a fertility rate below 1?

      Rate of 2: 2 babies are born per human death, population grows

      Rate of 1: 1 baby is born per death, population remains the same

      Rate of 0.5: 1 baby is born for every 2 deaths, pop. decreases.

      Rate of 0: no babies are born, but people still die.

      What would a negative fertility rate mean? A rate of -1? I don’t think it could exist.