https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHb8xC2_7aE
A look at the impact of a collapse in birth rates - why it will impose many costs on the young workers. But, also are there any benefits? Please subscribe t

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
But the world's largest economies are already there: The total fertility rate among the OECD's 38 member countries dropped to just 1.5 children per woman in 2022 from 3.3 children in 1960.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/global-fertility-has-collapsed-with-profound-economic-consequences
Even as artificial intelligence ( ai) leads to surging optimism in some quarters, the baby bust hangs over the future of the world economy. In 2000 the world's fertility rate was 2.7 births per

https://www.sciencealert.com/birth-rates-are-plummeting-in-most-nations-and-the-world-isnt-prepared
Human birth rates will continue to drop drastically over the coming century, and within just 25 years, over two-thirds of countries' populations will be in decline. That's the finding of a new study published in The Lancet. The extensive team of international scientists behind the paper warns that governments must prepare for the massive

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-collapsing-birth-rate-risks-060000349.html
"Since 2016, [the birth rate] has been dropping very quickly. That essentially is creating a huge economic headwind further down the line." New births fell to 9m in 2023, down from 9.56m in 2022.

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/05/21/can-the-rich-world-escape-its-baby-crisis
Instead, birth rates have collapsed because young women are not having as many children. In 1960 American women had on average 3.6 children. In 2023 they had 1.6.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90664184/falling-birthrates-are-an-economic-issue-heres-how-we-can-fix-it
The alarm bells are sounding on the fertility front as countries around the world face historically low birth rates. In the United States, the number of annual births in 2020 sagged to 3,605,201

https://www.ft.com/content/318ff981-d189-4bd6-b608-a9709097eedc
The UN forecasts the global population could grow from the current figure of about 8bn to 9.7bn in 2050 and peak at nearly 10.4bn in the mid-2080s. But those figures mask how the so-called total

https://npg.org/library/forum-series/dont-call-it-a-crisis-fp-2021.html
The New York Times calls it China's "time bomb" and "looming demographic crisis"7 using the same loaded language whenever this topic pops up. There is nothing abnormal about collapsing birth rates in the U.S., Europe, East Asia, and much of the developing world. Rather, this is an expected and predicted outcome of rising population

https://www.research.hsbc.com/C/1/1/320/gb9tVK9
The world's crude birth rate has fallen by 1ppt over that time, meaning that for every 1,000 people, one fewer baby is born today than in 2019 - and in a world population of nearly 8bn that means 8m fewer babies every year as a result. The question is where this goes from here.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-rate-declining-younger-generations-crisis/
The Brookings Institution has predicted "a large, lasting baby bust" of at least 300,000 fewer children in 2021. For Laura Lindberg, who tracks reproductive data for the Guttmacher Institute, the

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/17/birth-rate-decrease-population-decline-extinction/
A smaller young population means a smaller workforce, not to mention a greater imbalance between net contributors and recipients from the economy. In 2022, the birth rate in the UK dropped to the

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baby-bust-could-population-decline-spell-end-economic-growth
Currently, two-thirds of the world's population lives in a country where fertility is below the replacement rate of 2 children per woman. (In 2020, the U.S. fertility rate was 1.6.) Governments could try to jumpstart birth rates by offering people incentives to have more kids. But Jones says this will only work if it's implemented in time.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4700271-americas-income-crisis-how-its-triggering-a-collapse-in-birth-rates
The economy maintained a long-term real private income trendline of 2.8% from 1966 until 2008, and then it broke. It broke once more after the pandemic. BLS, BEA, Census Bureau. This is why

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2023-06-03
The baby-bust economy: How declining birth rates will change the world - Weekly edition of The Economist for Jun 3rd 2023. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathanial-Gronewold/publication/354814291_Don't_Call_it_a_Crisis_The_Natural_Explanation_Behind_Collapsing_Birth_Rates/links/614dd950f8c9c51a8aeeca21/Dont-Call-it-a-Crisis-The-Natural-Explanation-Behind-Collapsing-Birth-Rates.pdf
Rather, in the face of the collapsing birth rates trend - and a possible future decline in U.S. population that may ensue because of it - the only proper response by the U.S.

https://www.businessinsider.com/throwing-money-schemes-wont-solve-global-fertility-crisis-demography-experts-2024-6?op=1
The world is facing a fertility rate crisis, and experts warn that giving financial incentives to would-be parents isn't going to come close to solving it. A Lancet study forecasts that by 2100

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141000410/how-declining-birth-rates-hurt-global-economies
PHILLIP LONGMAN: The first order effect of a decline in the birthrate tends to be positive for the economy. A society finds it has fewer children to raise and educate. That tends to free up a lot

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whats-the-real-cause-of-falling-birth-rates/
OECD data puts Slovakia at the top end of the housing costs chart but its birth rate is higher than Chile (1.54) which has some of the lowest property costs. Rent in Latvia is far cheaper than the

https://www.theringer.com/2024/6/21/24183034/the-radical-cultural-shift-behind-americas-declining-birth-rate
This is actually true of men and women at almost the same rates. And we have sociologists and pundits respond to this by saying, "Oh, there is a shortage of Mr. Rights. There is a problem of

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/13k7esy/whats_the_deal_with_the_rise_in_posts_of_falling/
They're staring some nice severe economic collapse down the line at the current rate. Everbody's been saying that for a few decades already. They're stagnant, but the so called "severe economic collapse" probably won't ever happen. The Japanese economy isn't heavily relied on growth the same way Western economies are.

https://populationconnection.org/article/the-declining-american-birth-rate-could-actually-be-good-for-the-economy/
Originally published by Business Insider on May 23, 2021. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped a new report that revealed the U.S. birth rate fell by 4 percent, the sharpest single-year decline in nearly 50 years and the lowest number of births since 1979. The news seemingly sent America—and

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/lwgrxl/birth_rates_continue_to_decline/
289 votes, 186 comments. 480K subscribers in the collapse community. For 48 hours /r/Collapse is going dark in solidarity and protest against

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/connect-the-dots/lower-birth-rates-worldwide-economy-challenges/275-fbdcbb73-994c-4453-8951-cf78a54984d9
Updated:12:06 PM EDT March 26, 2024. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — High rates of inflation combined with more access to contraception have played a part in lower birth rates worldwide. Experts say that

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354814291_Don%27t_Call_it_a_Crisis_The_Natural_Explanation_Behind_Collapsing_Birth_Rates
In economic studies of birth behavior, direct children-related and opportunity costs are important factors affecting the birth behavior of young families. Furthermore, those costs are heavily

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/vtyk93/why_is_a_collapsing_birthrate_a_bad_thing/
However, a declining birth rate shifts demographics. More older people and fewer younger people. And elderly-heavy distribution means more healthcare needs but fewer people available to provide it. Effectively, the decline in the labour market is smaller than the decline in the demand for services. 18.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/factchecking-the-biden-trump-debate/
By contrast, the nation's economy grew at a faster annual rate 48 times and under every president before and after Trump dating to 1930, except Barack Obama and Herbert Hoover. The economy grew

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/fact-checking-the-cnn-presidential-debate/index.html
The USITC found that US importers, on average between 2018 and 2021, ended up paying nearly the full cost of the tariffs because import prices increased at the same rate as the tariffs. For each 1

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/27/us/biden-trump-debate-fact-check
The economy has added more than 15 million jobs since Mr. Biden took office in January 2021, but it is true that some of that has been a bounce back from a sharp drop in employment during the

https://rollcall.com/2024/06/28/fact-checking-the-biden-trump-debate/
By contrast, the nation's economy grew at a faster annual rate 48 times and under every president before and after Trump dating to 1930, except Barack Obama and Herbert Hoover. The economy grew