The Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008 births report found the nation's total fertility rate rose from 1.92 babies a woman in 2007 to 1.97 last year, the highest since 1977.
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If they could just inch it up to 2.2, perhaps they could escape the social dysfunction of an inverted demographic pyramid. If they could grow their population, they could maybe become a political force in this world from the fact that they decided not to give up on childbearing.
