How are low and high birth rates an indicator for a countries standard of living?

Answer 1

Lower bight rates generally mean higher standard of living.

higher birth rates could mean, over populated lower education, lower incomes, higher death rates, lower medical services.

In general, people with high incomes and high education are too busy to have kids, where in many poor economies, you have kids with the hopes that enough of them will survive and provide for you in old age.

Answer 2

Countries with higher standards of living often times have lower birthrates. This tends to bo due to better health care, so people live longer and have other things to do rather than have children. Children also become something the person wants, rather than needs. Countries with lower standards of living have higher birthrates because more children are needed to make everyday life as easy as possible.
Interesting Fact: The overall population of the world has grown a little more then 10x in the millenium or so! We aer now at about 12 billion people, and it is expected to level of in the next two hundred years at somewhere between 9 and 10.5 billion!

Answer 3

In general, no matter the species, the population of birth increases when the times of fruitful economics has been reached. There is a better ability to care for children and a more relaxed need to breed healthily. Some nations show a spike in birth rates while other show a drop during economic booms. When the economy does well and employment increases a safety net is developed. Then again, overpopulations and population aging leads to stress on the economy.

Answer 4

ya lower birth rates mean higher standards of living, so the usa has low birth rates because family's have less kids. high birth rates mean that the country is a developing country (poor country) the family's are having more kids because they need the kids for labor and a lot of their kids die so they keep having a lot of kids...ok hope this helped cya

Answer 5

um...no. lower birthrates indicate a lower standard of living. higher birthrates (more successful live births) are usually an indicator of superior medical technology and/or access to excellent prenatal care. usually, poorer countries cannot afford the medical supplies required to ensure healthful births, like a sonogram machine to monitor the babies health in utero, or the tools necessary and the skill level required to perform emergency or c section deliveries. the former must cost thousands of dollars and the latter as much or more to go to a decent medical school.