Hehe, when I made the comment above, my brain had changed the sentence to be:
Chance of having been born in each continent in 2026
Which sounded funny to me.
Fertility is really taking a plunge tomorrow.
Wow, Asia’s still ahead, I wouldn’t have guessed that.
okay. americas, eurasia, africa, australia, antarctica, oceania. happy?
Eurasia, then other Asia
Wait when was Russia part of Europe.
Western part is in Europe, east of the Caucasus mountains is Asia. Map is slightly ehh in that regard.
I think you might be confusing the Ural Mountains with the Caucasus Mountains?
Yea sorry, it’s been over a decade since I last had Geography class lmao
Russia west of the Ural mountains is Europe, east is Asia. But the Caucasus mountains are also a border between Europe and Asia.
Thus proving the almost total arbitrariness of defining Europe as a “continent” but here we are.
That’s how the Romans divided the world thousands of years ago and it stuck.
since 80% of its population was in the european side
Ive been lied to my whole life!
Looks at Australia
I choose to not be born in 2026
Brave
Now do “chance of dying of any cause under the age of 20” per continent.
so you want an industrialization index?
So.
I hear that India is getting better but lots of it is pretty shit.
Large parts of Africa are similarly underdeveloped.
Why are birth rates so high in these regions and not in more developed areas?
Like. I understand the thesis that things are pretty shit so why have kids that prevails in more developed nations - but why does that not hold true in less developed ones? Where things are arguably more shit?
Why are birth rates so high in these regions and not in more developed areas?
Development is exactly what makes birth rates go down. People also used to have more kids in developed countries in the past, and it went down the more the countries’ development indicators went up.
The reason? It’s not simple, there are entire theses over the subject and, likely, different causes, but roughly, it’s lower education levels, more religious influence, less women rights, criminality, etc. For many people in poorer places, having kids is not an option at all. It “just happens.” Actually choosing to have kids is something very recent historically and far from something universal.
If you can figure out the answer to this question, you deserve a Nobel prize.
Every country on earth seems to be seeing the same phenomenon: the more developed and comfortable life in your country gets, the more your birthrate tanks. There are lots of theories, but nobody seems to have a good explanation or know what to do about it.
A Nobel prize you say?
Okay.
It’s insects.
Less insects = less babies. More insects = more babies.
Prize please.
might be similar reasons as the american settlers had, more hands for work offsets the extra mouths to feed.
Makes sense I guess.
Could explain why us politicians want to eliminate child labour laws.
because “developed nations” are filled with self-indulgent narcissistic selfish people who would understandably spend their resources, all that time and energy, for something more enjoyable than trying to breed some more self-indulgent narcissistic selfish 💩
There are a wide variety of reasons that can be explored and discussed but the way you’ve framed the question suggests such a narrow worldview that one feels it would be a wasted effort.
I wonder where the data starts.
I mean technically each sperm/egg combo has the potential to become a human in some scenario.
Did they include each time someone knocks one out of the park on their own?
What?
It’s very obviously just the percentage of people born
Depends on how you read it 🤷♂️
“On each continent” it doesn’t necessarily say that if you were to fall outside of a percentage that you automatically are born on a different continent.
(I’m just messin with ya)
They not only screwed up their continent borders, but they forgot the continent of Antarctica. There are tons of researchers who spend months (maybe years?) living there while working. It’s extremely low, but there’s a non-zero chance someone could be born there.
No way it would fit into those two decimal points, though.
Looks like there have officially only ever been 11 Antarctic births, and none since 1985. While you’re right that it’s likely non-zero, it’s also probably zero.
it’s also probably zero.
That’s not how math works.
I don’t know if they allow pregnant researchers there.
No, not usually. IIRC the only births ever were at a Chilean outpost, and they were trying to make a nationalistic point.
New year’s resolution: beat the odds and be not born in Asia.
Technically the odds would be with “not born in Asia”, 50.31%.
Nobody ever said new year’s resolutions have to be difficult.
Damn, Ukraine really went crazy with its 2026 counteroffensive.
From the Sea to the Sea to the Sea to the Sea to the Sea
“Wait, it’s all Ukraine?” “Always has been” 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
Slava Ukraini Intensifies
Angry Albanian Noises
I would just like to point out that e.g. according to buddhist belief, where/how you are reborn depends on what you helped to create in your previous life.
this is to be understood both biologically and psychologically. i.e. when you hurt someone, like your neighbor, chances are high that you’re going to experience the same action done to you in your next life, but also if you help somebody ofc.
so the chance of being reborn in africa if you live in the US today are … low, i’d say.
It sounds like you’re internally associating Africa and the US with opposite “goodness” evaluations, but you never explain which way and I have no idea why you think your conclusion makes sense.
How many of those countries have been subject to neocolonialism and CIA coups? Lots of people support politicians who want to continue stealing from and exploiting countries in Africa and elsewhere, so by that logic it seems to me that the chances are pretty high, actually.
I don’t think enough people are being born in Palestine to accommodate all the American souls who karmically ought to be reborn there.
I suppose this is the sort of map fear-fomenting rightwing racists would use to support their arguments about white replacement theory. It would be pretty effective. Sigh.
Just ask them why they cannot get laid 😎
*on preferably
