>>>The children "argument" is from the site - it is a rhetoric figure (or fallacy) probably hoping to evoke non-thinking, only emotional response, turning me off.
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>>I didn't read the url , but the "children" might not be a fallacy if there is substantial combat taking place.
>>For example - I read recently that there are hundreds of thousands of widows in Afghanistan and Pakistan whose husbands were lost in all of the endless fighting there.
>>Killing off fighting-age men disproportionately increases the number of women and children in the population.
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>From my guess after eyeballing these numbers this is not happening there:
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>https://www.populationpyramid.net/afghanistan/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/egypt/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/indonesia/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/iran-islamic-republic-of/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/iraq/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/israel/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/jordan/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/pakistan/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/state-of-palestine/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/syrian-arab-republic/2017/
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>https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/asia/2017/
>https://www.populationpyramid.net/europe/2017/
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>seems more connected to education, standard of living - even among countries selected for geolocation/climate and Religion are large differences.
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>Have not looked for religious subgroups in countries, but might be significant.

Good data