Good afternoon everyone! After last week’s post about Russia’s demographic decline, I thought that I’d share with you a short, little, easy-to-digest video from the Population Research Institute about the total fertility rate, and why modern, western society needs about 2.1 children per woman to reproduce themselves.  Enjoy!

Marcus Roberts is a Senior Researcher at the Maxim Institute in Auckland, New Zealand, and was co-editor of the former MercatorNet blog, Demography is Destiny. Marcus has a background in the law, both...