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Monday, January 13, 2020

Low Fertility Rates - Causes and Consequences

The Future of the City Is Childless
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/ 

Global Fertility Rate Declines
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-global-fertility-crash/
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46118103

South Korea’s fertility rate falls to a record low

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/30/south-koreas-fertility-rate-falls-to-a-record-low

Hungary, Poland and others are offering subsidies to raise birth rates, but their efforts have been futile.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-20/making-babies-to-grow-economies-won-t-work

China is facing problems associated with having too few young people. Despite the encouragement to have more children, most people now don’t want to expand their families. It all comes down to the economy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/beijings-one-child-policy-is-gone-but-many-chinese-are-still-reluctant-to-have-more/2019/05/02/c722e568-604f-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html

Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2019/02/demographic-shifts-and-future-of-mankind.html
at January 13, 2020
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