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Climate Brief:Declining world birth rates mean immigration is now indispensable pt 1 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-19
Shrinking Populations, Shifting Economies
Advanced nations must redesign economies for a smaller, aging population
Population decline is accelerating in advanced economies, with major shifts expected by the 2030s.
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The Apocalyptic Decline in Birth Rates
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Another meta-analysis in 2022, again led by Hagai Levine, reported that sperm concentration declined by 53.3 percent and sperm count by 56.3 percent in … The latest UN population projections reveal a world on the cusp of a stunning demographic transformation. The global baby bust continues to deepen, countries almost everywhere are aging, and a growing number face long-term demographic decline. In this Vantage Point, we discuss the coming global demographic transformation, as well as the daunting social, economic, and geopolitical challenges it poses group Male infertility crisis - Wikipedia
Over the past 50 years, human sperm counts appear to have fallen by more than 50% around the globe, according to an updated review of medical literature.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Sperm counts may be declining... (CNN News) - Behind the headlines
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Record Drop in Europe's Birth Rates in 2023 Risks Future Labor Shortage
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Just have more babies? The deceptively complicated problem of the record-low U.S. fertility rate.
Americans aren't having enough children to maintain our population size.
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The End of Children
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?
What will the end of humanity look like? We may soon find out. Declining fertility rates have become a near-universal phenomenon; in the U.S., the rate has dropped roughly twenty per cent in the past two decades. Right-wing activists view depopulation as a threat greater than climate change, a stance that the left often calls scaremongering in service of their assault on reproductive rights. But is there cause for alarm?
, which has the lowest birth rate of any nation in the world and possibly the lowest in recorded history, to see what the future might hold for other countries on the downward slope in baby making. There, he notes, “Portents of desolation are everywhere.” About two hundred day-care facilities have been turned into nursing homes; a rural school has been repurposed as a cat sanctuary; on offer at an after-school program is an apparatus for playing Ping-Pong alone. “The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish,” he writes, “but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.” For a piece in this week’s issue, Gideon Lewis-Kraus travels to South Korea , which has the lowest birth rate of any nation in the world and possibly the lowest in recorded history, to see what the future might hold for other countries on the downward slope in baby making. There, he notes, “Portents of desolation are everywhere.” About two hundred day-care facilities have been turned into nursing homes; a rural school has been repurposed as a cat sanctuary; on offer at an after-school program is an apparatus for playing Ping-Pong alone. “The end of the world is usually dramatized as convulsive and feverish,” he writes, “but population loss is an apocalypse on an installment plan.”
Global Population Growth Is Rapidly Declining - Here’s Why www.iflscience.com/...
Charted: The World Has Passed ‘Peak Child’
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