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Burger, you're saying something different than the OP (and hence, different than what tghw was criticizing). In "all probability" the location won't be China or India, as those two countries alone don't represent a substantial majority of births.

So your point that those two have the highest birth rate isn't responsive to tghw's point that those two alone don't represent the majority of new births. So if we had to bet on "one country", a person would pick one of those two. But when we're betting "India/China or somewhere else?" the smart money is on "somewhere else".



"Is the birth rate of China and India combined more than that of the rest of the world? If so, then it's more likely that it will occur there than anywhere else."

I'm asking two questions. The second, quoted here, is saying the same thing as the OP.


If we had to pick one country for "one country", we would pick India, which seems to now have more births than China each year.




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