Whenever the topic of declining fertility comes up, it’s often framed as something that mainly affects first-world countries. In reality, the situation is much broader. In this podcast, guest...
Whenever the topic of declining fertility comes up, it’s often framed as something that mainly affects first-world countries. In reality, the situation is much broader.
In this podcast, guest professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde explains that it is a global issue. He highlights how regions like Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa are experiencing some of the fastest declines in birth rates, and explores the underlying factors.
Before I spend any time on this, can someone tell me if this is about an actual fertility crisis, in that people are unable to have children, or is this a birth rate crisis, where fewer children...
Before I spend any time on this, can someone tell me if this is about an actual fertility crisis, in that people are unable to have children, or is this a birth rate crisis, where fewer children are being born because people are choosing not to do so?
Birth rate crisis. That said, while there’s been a lot of low quality discussion on declining birth rates, it’s still an issue that deserves thoughtful consideration, as our entire system (not...
Birth rate crisis. That said, while there’s been a lot of low quality discussion on declining birth rates, it’s still an issue that deserves thoughtful consideration, as our entire system (not just capitalism) relies on a stable or increasing population. An upside-down pyramid presents a major issue to social welfare, infrastructure upkeep, retirement, among others.
I am at a vacation rental and one of the books left here that I picked up today is The Children Of Men. I’m only ~20 pages in. It is set in Britain 2021 and there is a global fertility crisis: no...
I am at a vacation rental and one of the books left here that I picked up today is The Children Of Men. I’m only ~20 pages in. It is set in Britain 2021 and there is a global fertility crisis: no new children have been born since 1995, globally.
No reason is really given (at least so far) for this calamity. But these types of reports as in the posted article are mentioned as a sort of early warning, not understood at the point they at published but only a small piece of a larger puzzle.
Anyway, not saying this is the case here, but just an interesting note.
Whenever the topic of declining fertility comes up, it’s often framed as something that mainly affects first-world countries. In reality, the situation is much broader.
In this podcast, guest professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde explains that it is a global issue. He highlights how regions like Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa are experiencing some of the fastest declines in birth rates, and explores the underlying factors.
Before I spend any time on this, can someone tell me if this is about an actual fertility crisis, in that people are unable to have children, or is this a birth rate crisis, where fewer children are being born because people are choosing not to do so?
Birth rate crisis. That said, while there’s been a lot of low quality discussion on declining birth rates, it’s still an issue that deserves thoughtful consideration, as our entire system (not just capitalism) relies on a stable or increasing population. An upside-down pyramid presents a major issue to social welfare, infrastructure upkeep, retirement, among others.
Coastal west Africa is a apparently an exception to this trend.
I am at a vacation rental and one of the books left here that I picked up today is The Children Of Men. I’m only ~20 pages in. It is set in Britain 2021 and there is a global fertility crisis: no new children have been born since 1995, globally.
No reason is really given (at least so far) for this calamity. But these types of reports as in the posted article are mentioned as a sort of early warning, not understood at the point they at published but only a small piece of a larger puzzle.
Anyway, not saying this is the case here, but just an interesting note.