Wall Street Journal found the U.S. "total fertility rate"--and it's as low as I thought

A month ago I wrote a piece about the fact that your rulers were carefully hiding yet another piece of what should be unsettling news:  

There's a figure called "total fertility rate" that's the average number of children born to all women of any designated group over her lifetime.  The idea is that if births are evenly divided by sex (they're not, but close), then if women have an average of a bit over two children, the population should stay fairly stable.

I noted that if you do a net search for "total fertility rate" you get vastly different numbers, somewhere in the 30s.  Clearly this isn't the same thing at all, and it gives readers no idea of whether a nation's native population is rising or falling.  What those 30-ish numbers are are births per thousand women--a figure that's impossible to compare.

Well the Wall Street Journal just ran a piece on birth rates, and specifically "total fertility rate."  Back in the 1960s American women were having an average of more than 4 children.  As of last year this number had fallen to 1.62.  

 

But even more unsettling is that this number is the average number of children for all women in the U.S., citizen and immigrants, legal and illegal.  And the latter are having four or more kids, on average.  What that means is that the rate for non-immigrant Americans is significantly lower than 1.62.  And of course that means...the end of America as you've known it.

But now that I look at where this nation is headed--due to corrupt or dumb politicians--I can see why thoughtful American women are way less eager to have kids.  It makes sense.  

Source: WSJ