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You are still speaking as if over-population is a problem in the US and it isn't.
A stable population, no growth-no decline, is achieved with a fertility rate of 2.1 children per female. The US fertility rate is currently 2.06. The European nations are even worse off, they've been dying for decades now. Since the 1980's any growth in the European population has occurred because of immigration and because the non-assimilating immigrants have unusually high fertility rates. The same is becoming true in the US. The epicenters of outrageous fertility rates are in Africa, the Middle East, and South/Central America more or less in that order. (Number 1 is Niger with an average of 7.03 children born to every woman.)
Ishmael
Is that 7.03 figure an absolute number or is it net of prevailing child mortality rates by country?
The latter being the more meaningful number, obviously.