Talk:The Terran Campaign (Map Game)/@comment-26389738-20170328202251/@comment-26389738-20170328205455

Batran I beg to differ .Since it's 2217 I think China qualifies as a developed country and according to my link developed countries need a fertility rate of 2.0 to replace it's population.This means no growth happened yet and only decreasing the population have been avoided(though I saw some sources claiming 2.1)

Also since all I do for not having 2 kids is taking away pension(so I'm not forcing them directly) this means that some people still decide not to have kids or just 1(ok ik they're a minority but they exist)

And let me show it through an example: Let's say mother and a father make 2 children.Sure at 1st this would increase the population from 2 to 4 persons but when the parents died you don't have 4 children

you have 2

Then these 2 children would get married with 2 people from a different family and both couples would have 2  children increasing the population by 4

but again the 4 parents die and the children replace them

Altrough we did go up from 2 to 4 but that's only because humans can't fertilize themselves.Since the people they married were from the same generation it doesn't count as a population increase so even though in my example we're getting increasing numbers but they don't show genuine growth

Genuine growth could be achieved only if there's more children than parents as then they would not only replace their parents after they died but in fact add at least 1 extra person to the population