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What does this criterion even mean? The vast majority of Germans still lived in Germany so it's completely valid to compare them to the Jewish population, unless you want to include everyone with German ancestry outside of its borders, which would be an even faster population growth rate.Comparing apples and oranges here. I won't repeat myself. Provide a comparable instance to the 59-year spike observed globally for an ethnic group, not within a specific country's border. Alternatively, offer a sound and logical explanation.
Every country in the developed world had an acceleration in population growth rates during this period due to the advances in medicine and germ theory that led to huge decreases in child mortality and longer life expectancy for those who survived childhood. Between 1880 and 1900, the mortality rate from infectious diseases in Paris (for example) decreased as follows:
Typhoid: -83%
Smallpox: -100%
Diphtheria: -72%
Meningitis: -69%
The global average is meaningless when you consider factors like the famines in India, the fifth and sixth cholera pandemics, and Qing China's decay and growing impoverishment leading to the Warlord Era and Japanese invasions.A mere 52.38% uptick from the global average of 1.05%, considering a demographic group that historically had one of the lowest growth rates before 1880 and after 1939. Nothing to see here.