This is my Rome, like, of course we’re having fewer children now, we can’t just population explode exponentially forever and ever and we’re so much better at keeping them alive now with all our calories and energy harnessing
Mortality in the past: every second child diedThe chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally. How do we know about the mortality of children in the past? And what can we learn from it for our future?ourworldindata.org