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Fertility rate: 'Jaw-dropping' global crash in children being born
https://www.bbc.com ^ | 7/15/2020 | By James Gallagher

Posted on 07/14/2020 10:27:19 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a "jaw-dropping" impact on societies, say researchers.

Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.

And 23 nations - including Spain and Japan - are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.

Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born.

What is going on? The fertility rate - the average number of children a woman gives birth to - is falling.

If the number falls below approximately 2.1, then the size of the population starts to fall.

In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime.

Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed the global fertility rate nearly halved to 2.4 in 2017 - and their study, published in the Lancet, projects it will fall below 1.7 by 2100.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: RomanSoldier19

I’ll bet fertility rate has no connection to this. Really now.. who would want to bring children into THIS world?


41 posted on 07/15/2020 2:37:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (It's over. Split the country... it can and should be done.)
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To: Gene Eric

Russia had the same problem and it was much improved by susidizing births. Give perks to mothers of 3 or 4 children and you will get more children being born. Its not a panacea but it will certainly help.


42 posted on 07/15/2020 2:39:24 AM PDT by cdpap
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To: BenLurkin
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

It’s a very bad thing because it pretty much only applies to first world peoples, the Ilhan Omars of the world are still cranking them out as quick as they can get that thing healed up from the last one. Watch the movie Idiocracy for a good approximation of what happens when the majority of people having kids have an average IQ of 80.

Successful people are avoiding having kids because they’re too busy working, meanwhile the shiftless layabouts are cranking them out thanks to a never ending welfare state that pays them to have kids. Intelligence is heritable, the results are predictable.

43 posted on 07/15/2020 2:44:45 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: RomanSoldier19

Not to worry, there is going to be a very large spike in births this coming December-January.


44 posted on 07/15/2020 2:48:35 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The world can only support a finite number of people. In the long run this is good news. Imagine a world like that portrayed in Soylent Green. No thanks.


45 posted on 07/15/2020 3:28:51 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

There is ONE group that is popping out babies like rabbits on viagara. It willingly takes whatever it can get. It hates its hosts who are working and paying taxes. It kills them whenever it can. It allows a man to have 4 “wives” (baby machines) and of course the welfare pays for them all. There is one political party that favors and promotes this situation, and if it gets into power it will fully implement the soros agenda, and the country will be ruined beyond repair.


46 posted on 07/15/2020 4:18:18 AM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“jaw-dropping” ...lost me right there...

Leftist words I never want to hear again:

jaw-dropping
social distance
mask
coronoavirus
gravitas


47 posted on 07/15/2020 4:23:18 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: olivia3boys

I agree. Israel is an awesome place. I went there in 2013 and then again in 2014.


48 posted on 07/15/2020 4:30:53 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Systemic liberalism is the problem.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I believe the Corvid-19 lockdown may play into this situation.

How many parents have discovered the way their moms used to live? How many have now tasted the mixed joys of staying home all day, cooking and cleaning and caring for the tadpoles, often while “working at home” albeit on shorter hours?

Benefits include little things like social interaction with other moms, better security in the neighborhood from all those watchful eyes and less stress.

The loss of income is the biggest flaw with the “stay at home” lifestyle and there is no easy solution to that one, unless companies double up on dad’s pay. But a lot of moms have just discovered what their moms knew all along.


49 posted on 07/15/2020 4:33:47 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD guy with a gun is a GOOD guy with a gun.)
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To: Gene Eric

Guess the Population Bomb is a dud


50 posted on 07/15/2020 4:37:10 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: RomanSoldier19

Feminism destroys femininity. Feminists are repulsive.


51 posted on 07/15/2020 4:46:02 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Except for Muslims and poor Black fatherless homes. Although in the latter case, abortions and gang violence are doing a pretty good job of “culling the herd,” so to speak.

We are killing ourselves. Mark Steyn wrote a great book on that; I can’t remember the title just now. I’ll look it up.

It’s kind of like that movie “Idiocracy.”


52 posted on 07/15/2020 4:54:24 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: RomanSoldier19

I think Steyn’s book was “Lights Out: Islam, free speech and the twilight of the West.”


53 posted on 07/15/2020 4:57:38 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: roadcat

“And Africa perhaps trebling in size. Maybe that’s why liberals are pushing the BLM agenda; preparing us for our Nigerian overlords! “

Heaven on Earth! With princesses and gazillions of dollars for everyone! Yay! LOL!


54 posted on 07/15/2020 4:59:25 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: Swordmaker

“...the uglification of the female sex”

I agree with all of your points but this caught my eye. I’m a woman, btw.

I think the downward slide in terms of beauty for women began when they gave up those gorgeous dresses of the 1950s and early ‘60s. Big, pouffy skirts; think of the lovely Grace Kelly in “Rear Window.”

When they stopped trying to look nice for men, men got less interested. IMO. Also, women stopped waiting for marriage and men figured, as the old saying goes, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free.” So promiscuity of the ‘60s and the pill, well, it was all downhill.


55 posted on 07/15/2020 5:05:20 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: dp0622

Don’t worry there are enough muzzies raping enough women to fill up the birth gap. You will be taken care of one way or another.


56 posted on 07/15/2020 5:23:23 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: SpaceBar
"Only amongst whitey. Everyone else can’t make ‘em fast enough."

Yeah.. Last I heard it was Islam's plan to breed us out of existence..

57 posted on 07/15/2020 5:41:01 AM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
We need an ever larger group of suckers coming in at the bottom to become mindless wage slaves and consumers in order to feed the Platinum Level folks at the top.

How do you get that from this article about projected population for the world?

58 posted on 07/15/2020 5:45:00 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Lefttards spend decades telling people the world is doomed. Then they act surprised that mislead generations are not producing children.

Welcome to the consequences of your actions.

59 posted on 07/15/2020 5:45:34 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: dp0622

[[[By 2100? I’ll only be a hundred and thirty-two! I hope that doesn’t mess up my golden years]]]

I’ll be sitting with you out on the veranda smoking Muriel Air Tips.


60 posted on 07/15/2020 5:46:15 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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