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Global fertility rates (view source)
Revision as of 02:03, December 20, 2023
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In thefirst quarter of the 21st century '''global fertility rates''' plummeted to record lows all over the industrialized world, and this has serious implications for the future. Native populations fell in wealthy countries, and there are not enough young workers to support the [[entitlement]] programs that the elderly are counting on. Meanwhile, nations where birth rates are still above replacement level (such as in the [[Islamic]] world) are becoming more powerful and will play a more dominant role in world affairs. Despite all of [[the West]]'s advanced [[technology]], [[population]] numbers still matter, a demographic collapse of epic proportions became imminent.
In thefirst quarter of the 21st century '''global fertility rates''' plummeted to record lows all over the industrialized world, and this has serious implications for the future. Native populations fell in wealthy countries, and there are not enough young workers to support the [[entitlement]] programs that the elderly are counting on. Meanwhile, nations where birth rates are still above replacement level (such as in the [[Islamic]] world) are becoming more powerful and will play a more dominant role in world affairs. Despite all of [[the West]]'s advanced [[technology]], [[population]] numbers still matter, a demographic collapse of epic proportions became imminent.
==United State==
In the [[United State]], the birth rate has been falling since the [[Great Recession of 2007]], dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. As of 2023, the average [[American]] [[woman]] has about 1.6 children, down from three in 1950, and significantly below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children needed to sustain a stable population.
Institute for Family Studies senior fellow Brad Wilcox told Fox News Digital that the US may already be seeing the effects:<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/media/population-rate-decline-us-triggers-economic-alarms-experts-calamitous-effects Population rate decline in the US triggers economic alarms from experts: 'Calamitous effect'], By Lindsay Kornick, [[Fox News]], October 24, 2023. </ref>
{{Cquotte|Below-replacement fertility means closing [[school]]s, shrinking college enrollments, fewer workers and consumers, and not enough taxes to pay for entitlements. We’re already seeing low fertility fallout hitting schools and colleges. But it will have big consequences for the [[economy]] as well, given that there will be relatively fewer workers and [[consumer]]s, and less [[entrepreneurial]] activity, as the population of young adults in America falls across much of the nation.}}
==South Korea==
==Russia==
==Russia==
[[File:Putin I'm not bluffing.PNG|thumbnail|200px|right|Russian demography has long been an existential issue to [[Vladimir Putin]]. In 2021, he declared “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority".<ref>[https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/russia-population-historic-decline-emigration-war-plunging-birth-rate-form-perfect-storm/ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’], Fortune magazine, 2022</ref> ]]
[[File:Putin I'm not bluffing.PNG|thumbnail|200px|right|Russian demography has long been an existential issue to [[Vladimir Putin]]. In 2021, he declared “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority".<ref>[https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/russia-population-historic-decline-emigration-war-plunging-birth-rate-form-perfect-storm/ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’], Fortune magazine, 2022</ref> ]]