Posted on 04/02/2025 5:28:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The more societies ‘advance’, the number of children per household declines, it seems like.
It's not an "oversupply" of men as if God made a disproportionate number of Chinese male babies. It's that the Chinese killed off so many of their female babies.
If the birth rate just stabilized China’s population would drop to about 500 million by 2100. But of course past performance is no guarantee of future results. Rates could in fact decline even more. It is going to be tough being old in China with nobody to change your diaper.
Those girls should hang tight and not settle. There’s a multi-millionaire out there for each and every one.
You notice they say “the official number of births”. The number are widely thought to be faked by local officials. When they reach school age, it seems like many babies have mysteriously disappeared.
Sorry, the world is depending on countries like Nigeria. (Nigeria is 10th highest in birth rate. But it’s significantly behind countries like Niger.)
Another reason is that many young people just don’t want to get married and have kids. They also don’t want to have a long -term job. They see no reason for anyone that.
They want to just “lay flat” and make enough for them to survive and enjoy their lives.
Five years ago, I read the average age in China would be older than the U.S. by 2030. Maybe it already is.
“Enjoy”
reading article only because of the author’s name...
They did it to themselves, forcing women to have abortions so that they had only one child, for decades.
All Communist countries have population declines.
Who would have thought slaves would drop their shovels and walk away?
As a totalitarian country, they could do some things to strongly encourage marriage and family, which could not be done in other countries.
It would decline more, I believe. China’s debt is not manageable by it’s current population. As its population drops, their share of the debt grows. Many people will simply be living to service the debt, forget about having children.
CORRECT! Because in Chinese culture the oldest SON takes care of the parents when they retire. So, if you’re only allowed 1 child, you wanted it to be a boy.
They’re now reaping the reward of that shortsightedness.
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