Volume 32 - Article 1 | Pages 1–28
Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?
By Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Jan Stonawski, Setsuya Fukuda, Thomas Spoorenberg, Conrad Hackett, Raya Muttarak
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