Falling fertility still grows population until it drops below replacement level

Evidence

Because population grows exponentially, a paradox in population change arises that the general public may not understand. Falling fertility is accompanied by increased population for some time. Offspring may be less prolific, but there are more of them. As long as the falling fertility rate remains above a replacement level of 2.1 per woman, the population will continue to grow, albeit at a slower rate. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2567

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to general demographic-transition knowledge and to debates about population vs. environmental limits the reader has encountered elsewhere. — connects to: Population un-mixing follows decades of demographic expansion that exceeds a single lifetime — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 58
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2567