6 of the countries i chose had above 65% Catholic citizens
while the 3 others had below 5% catholic citizens (see excel sheet for exact
numbers).
Does birth rate correlate with catholic religion?
From the excel sheet one can see that catholic religion does
not affect the birth rate of a country as much as other factors. From the
statistics I have found, I would say that economy has more to say when looking
on birth rate, than religion. Wether the economy of that country is extremely
bad or extremely good.
Comparing Italy (80% catholics) and Norway (1% catholics)
one can see that their birth rate does not differ by much. Norway has none of
its population below the poverty line, while Italy has 19,6% under the poverty
line. Norway has a birth rate of 10,8 per 1000 population whilst Italy has 8,94
per 1000 population. Better economy can result in higher birth rate.
This however also happens the other way around. Comparing
Bolivia and France one can see that Bolivia has way higher birth rates than
France (23,77 in Bolivia compared to 12,6 in France).
Bolivia has 49,6% of its citizens below the poverty line
while France only has 7,8% below the poverty line. Although Bolivia has a
higher percentage of catholicism than France, citizens below the poverty line
seems to have more effect on birth rates than religion.
This conclusion is also supported by countries with a low percentage of catholic citizens.
Mongolia and United Arab Emirates both have a relatively
high population below the poverty line and both have higher birth rates than Norway,
Italy, Luxembourg and France.
This analysis is limited to only 9 countries and is
therefore not excact. There are of course irregularities, but there seems to be
a pattern between birth rate and population below the poverty line rather than
birth rate and religion.
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