Fertility and Economic Growth in Your Country

Ireland seems to be a fairly developed country. Analysis of Ireland through data:

GDP PPP ($US) :48423
Fertility Rate: 2.1
Age Distribution:

Graph of fertility rate over time:

Ireland's' decrease fertility rate means that less children are dying, which means there will be more replacements for the aging work force. This increase in population will increase overall GDP. 

Graph of GDP per capita (PPP) over time:

Since the overall GDP will increase there will be more money in circulation, allowing for wages to increase, and GDP per capite to rise as it does so on the graph. 

scatter plot of GDP per capita Vs. Fertilty Rate:

   

***This chart shows what each dot is representing. On the scatter plot the years go in order from top to bottom.

The scatter plot shows that in fact with the decrease in fertility rate, GDP per captia does increase.