About AI and fertility:
The biggest part of the current fertility decline is due to lower coupling/mariage rates.
The category that retains OK mariage rates and decent(ish) fertility is educated white collars.
But the jobs identified as most at risk by AI are exactly those ones.
If AI becomes as potent as forecasted, and those jobs are replaced, will this categorie's marriage rate and fertility drop too ?
Jun 1, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
TFR by mother's language in 2023 in Finland for the 20 most spoken languages in Finland.
In the top 20, no language is above 2,5.
Half of them are even under 1 !
And here are the languages spoken with the highest TFR.
Most of them have a really low amount of language speakers, so variability can be high.
May 17, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Thread about the newly released crime statistics in Finland in 2023.
All of these statistics are based on the nationality of suspects of different solved offences.
In order to make comparisons easier to read, Finnish citizens rates are egal to 1.
Let's start with robbery :
Now assault :
Oct 1, 2023 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Here is a detailed thread on Finnish Laestadians’ demography.
First I will quickly describe what Laestadianism is.
Then I will discuss their estimated numbers.
I will conclude with their fertility rates.
Laestadianism is one of the 4 traditional revivalists movements of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland.
It is divided into different branches.
The main one is made by the Conservative Laestadians (SRK).
The other ones are smaller, amongst them Rauhan Sana and the LFF.