2. The low fertility rate country was Australia with a rate of 1.8 children.
3. If for every couple, there is an average of 4 children, as in Botswana, than the ratio of children to parents is 2:1. That means the ratio of children to grandparents is 4:1 and so on. This creates a pyramid effect when looking at populations.
4. In a country with a lower fertility rate, like Australia, the opposite is true. There is a slightly unbalanced number of children to parents, with 1.8 children to 2 parents. That means there are 4 grandparents to 1.8 children, simply speaking. With a life expectancy average of 76.6 years, the population begins to thin out progressively starting at about 55. This creates an oval effect when looking at populations.
5. It is tough to give descriptive words for each environment because each generation will determine what their environment will be like, but I will try
For a country with a lower fertility rate: reserved, conservative, wealthy (in comparison to other parts of the world), middle-class, developed, educated, 9 to 5, arts, transportation-heavy, stressed, little religion.
For a country with high fertility rates: strict, family-oriented, undeveloped, hungry, "primitive," transportation-lacking, young work force, lower-class, aided, sexually (over) active (?), religious.
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Australia's fertility rate is much less severe when compared to that of Japan for two reasons:
First; The problems caused by low fertility in Australia are more easily remedied by that of alternatives, mainly immigration. Although Australia has a past and ongoing history of racism and perhaps xenophobia, it has not yet progressed to such a high institutional level as to prevent such immigration (with a slight promotion of nationalism... a little can be a healthy thing) as a way to save it's literal ass. Japanan on the other hand, has had such xenophobia for years, and it extends so far as a third generation Japanese/Korean decedent would not be granted citizenship.
Second; the Japanese birthrate is not less than two, it's in the negative! So that should worry sociologists and statisticians immediately. The reasons conjectured for this range from Japanese lifestyle being too expensive to raise children, to the government protecting such a lifestyle through import tariffs, all the way to outright accusations of misogyny.
This kind of thing is kept more in place by economics and misguided thoughts of racial purity (yes, even in Botswana) than anything else. The free flow of people and goods who wish to do so is the only way to avoid such disasters that these models (consistent with the Dark Ages) will bring.
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