Gladstone wrote:OMG GEOGRAPHY.

Sam is correct, worldwide TFR has fallen by about 50% in the last 50 years. The figures for '05-'10 are 2.56.

Oh wow. I learned something new everyday. But I guess I was looking through a narrow lens. Where I grew up and such, the majority is hispanic/mexican. So they have tons of babies.

Nero wrote:OMG GEOGRAPHY.
A falling population is great. Many (but not all) issues would be solved if there wasn't overpopulations, and if people were more evenly distributed. And if women get more power worldwide. But not too much power. =p

Aren't populations mostly falling in developed countries though? As women focus more on careers and not marriage, there will be less children-->adults in the future. On the other hand, poor families in less developed countries have more children.

Most of my friends have siblings. But only one. And yeah, it has become more common to have only one child than have 2+ children.

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emethyst wrote:Aren't populations mostly falling in developed countries though? As women focus more on careers and not marriage, there will be less children-->adults in the future. On the other hand, poor families in less developed countries have more children.

Yeah, population is falling like anything in developed countries. Japan has so many pension and old-age problems because of that. And I read that half the children born in 2007 in Japan have a life expectancy of 108 years.
High time to increase retirement age. And pension can seriously no longer be funded by the working population (i.e. as tax payed by them to the Government). Nations could go bankrupt funding all that. The working population must be made to save a part of their salary as they earn.

emethyst wrote:

Nero wrote:OMG GEOGRAPHY.
A falling population is great. Many (but not all) issues would be solved if there wasn't overpopulations, and if people were more evenly distributed. And if women get more power worldwide. But not too much power. =p

Aren't populations mostly falling in developed countries though? As women focus more on careers and not marriage, there will be less children-->adults in the future. On the other hand, poor families in less developed countries have more children.

The TFR is some developed countries is below the replacement rate of 2.1, but due to immigration their populations are in fact growing.

Canis Lupus wrote:I tend to go to FMyLife.com to read up on some of the posts. From that I found out there is a MyLifeIsAverage.com and from that there is even a MLIT.com (MyLifeIsTwilight). I couldnt believe it. But it gave me the idea of MyLifeIsBarti. Wouldn't that be a fun site.


Today, I saw a stool and greeted it, pretending it was a witty djinni in strange form. MLIBarti.

Weren't we supposed to be talking about this?

Yeah. And the whole conversation on family demographics started with me mentioning I had a sister.

Welcome to Bartiforums.

Now that you know the true nature of Bartiforums (i.e. going off-topic whenever opportunity presents itself), you are now officially welcomed to the forum.

I hope I could look into the seventh plane. I am sure if I could do that, I would realize that all my teachers are evil spirits. MLIBarti.

I threaten to touch my best friend with pure silver if he annoys me too much. MLIB.

I flinch ever time I see rosemary for I imagine it hurts my essence. MLIBarti.

I insult my brother by calling him a foliot. MLIB

I compose mental footnotes for my thoughts. MLIB

My parents have to dismiss me (from the laptop) three times before I'm forced into leaving. MLIB

I had a dream that my brother was Bartimaeus. I got frustrated because I didn't know the actual words of summoning. MLIB

If I cut myself, I get worried about my essence leaking out. MLIBarti.

Actually, this is a reasonable worry. The precaution of getting a plaster to protect my essence is really doing me good.

I can see the penguin assassins on the seventh plane. MLIB.

Pre-teens - Lesser Beings (e.g. Mites)
Year 7-9 - Imps
Studying for GCSEs - Foliots
A levels - Djinni
Undergraduate - Afrits
Postgraduate - Marids
Academia - Higher Beings (e.g. Ramuthra)

MLIB.

Lilith wrote:Pre-teens - Lesser Beings (e.g. Mites)
Year 7-9 - Imps
Studying for GCSEs - Foliots
A levels - Djinni
Undergraduate - Afrits
Postgraduate - Marids
Academia - Higher Beings (e.g. Ramuthra)

MLIB.

^ That's pretty clever! :)

If anyone has a particularly meticulous job to do (like counting grains of sand on a beach) I recommend Faquarl - MLIB.

Ah, so close to achieving Marid level :P

Results day is Thursday. If I've done well, I'm on my way to becoming an Afrit in September!