William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, points out that despite the recent decline, the U.S. fertility rate still remains relatively high compared to many other developed countries like Germany and Italy. The United States also still has more births than deaths. And we still have a growing labor force.

In the comments, Collin asked: How is it the most productive, functional country Singapore has one of the lowest birth rate in the world? Is this robot future in which only the better off have ren? Why is it richer the world is the less people can afford ren? Right now the total fertility rate […]

What happens to a country when its people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates

by Ibn Warraq (April 2016). O ne of the most startling and original books I have read in the last five years is surely David P. Goldman’s How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying too).. Right from the beginning of his Introduction, Goldman shatters so many of our strongly held beliefs that we are left reeling, and pondering the truly disturbing …

Oct 04, 2012 · We’re becoming Europe. At least, that’s what a long line of U.S. birth-rate figures seems to being telling us. And that’s bad news for the future of the country. New numbers released by the U.S. government on Tuesday show record-low birth rates in 2011: the general fertility rate (63.

Birth rates in Japan fall to lowest level on record At current rates, Japanese population set to fall from 126.5 million to 51 million by 2115

Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area. In developed countries sub-replacement fertility is any rate below approximately 2.1 ren born per woman, but the threshold can be as high as 3.4 in some developing …

The woman appointed to try to reverse the world’s lowest birth rates knows better than most why billion-dollar campaigns to encourage South Korea’s female

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