• Dicska@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sorry, the last time I was commenting from the toilet. I’ve done some looking up:

    France:

    Spain:

    Germany:

    Italy:

    I mean, I know that 5 countries isn’t considered reliable statistics, I guess, but most of them are also on the rise in the given time period. Italy and a few other countries seemingly had a dip.

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        3 months ago

        Which is a fair point. I’m not an expert by any means, but the change in population growth could have come from various effects: maybe it wasn’t the end of socialism, but the start of capitalism; maybe it wasn’t the start of capitalism, but a general uncertainty after the old system dissolved; maybe it was coming from a third source (see above); maybe it was a global phenomenon, which has been happening in developed countries ever since; I don’t know, maybe it was The Shining coming out in 1980.