Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
Overall trends say our population is going up.
Quote Originally Posted by cygnus View Post
that's a little off - a higher mortality rate actually means that people have more children. the point is that the infant mortality rate in developed countries is lower, life expectancy is up, and it's more sensible to not have such large families. those in developing nations have such a high rate of population growth partly because they need children to support them, especially as they age.
That's what I meant to say. The population may still be going up, but its rate of growth is going down.