[OC] The world is aging: Birth rates have plummeted across every continent since 1960

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18 comments

  1. Does someone know where a line for the sustainable rate (2.1 per woman) would be in this graph?

  2. How does the planet’s population continue ballooning if no one is making babies?

  3. Africans still be fuckin though big ups to them for pumping up those numbers

  4. We’d love having child in one or two years but my gf would not be able between her eggs frozen proves that she can’t afford and generally speaking we can’t afford having kids.
    It’s funny how much it can cost a kid and they complain ppl doest do kids. 🙂

  5. Birth rates are plummeting because retirement ages are going and and won’t stop. Life is just a scam now because of capitalism. Im un born child deserves better.

  6. I can’t start a family after losing my job! And the situation got worse after government decided to import huge amounts of foreign labour. And all other further studies opportunities got taken as well.

  8. why only have Sub Saharan africa? It looks like the entire world is represented except northern africa

  10. I’d be interested to see how this compares to infant mortality as well

  11. The greatest crisis facing humanity in this and the next century. Many countries are now on a trajectory where they essentially cease to exist in about 4-5 generations (with social collapse arriving much sooner than that). The only region with good fertility is Sub-Saharan Africa, but it is also the least capable of efficiently integrating all these young people and putting them to productive work. This tension between demographically rich Sub-Saharan Africa and demographically poor rest of the world will likely cause more conflict and chaos as governments desperately try to stave off collapse by importing young Africans, only to realise they’re incapable of integrating them and facing massive pushback by natives.

    Interesting times ahead.

  12. I thought ever increasing population was a bad thing. Surely the only way to solve that is fewer babies?

    Wont we have like 50-70 years of aging population then a more stable one?

    Someone please eli5

  13. good – we have too many humans on planet earth. We have polluted the air, the oceans, cut down forests. Less humans = better planet.

  14. It’s interesting to me, that most long-term population predictions assume that the population would eventually stabilise at a certain level (stabilisation means average fertility rate at about 2.1). How do they imagine this “stabilisation”? Wouldn’t birth rates just drop indefinitely?

  15. is it still mostly because female education coincides with lower rates of childbirth?

  16. Interesting to see how slow Africa’s been developing then

  17. Can you make one for the U.S., then overlay housing prices and inflation? I just want to see if there is any correlation /s

  18. Second demographic transition is a real phenomenon. Sub-replacement rates is the norm and was first observed in the post-modernist West in the later 1960s.

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