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The global population has hit 8 billion
Yet while our overall numbers are still growing fast, fertility rates are plummeting and in much of the world are now below replacement level🧵
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newscientist.com/article/234615…
Yet while our overall numbers are still growing fast, fertility rates are plummeting and in much of the world are now below replacement level🧵
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newscientist.com/article/234615…
In these countries, populations are either falling already - as in Japan - or will do within decades
Where there is a high proportion of young people, there can be a lag between fertility falling below replacement and the population starting to fall
newscientist.com/article/mg2483…
Where there is a high proportion of young people, there can be a lag between fertility falling below replacement and the population starting to fall
newscientist.com/article/mg2483…
Take the three largest countries
The population of China will begin to fall soon and could halve by 2100. India's could peak around 2050. And the US population would fall from the 2030s if not for immigration
newscientist.com/article/216911…
The population of China will begin to fall soon and could halve by 2100. India's could peak around 2050. And the US population would fall from the 2030s if not for immigration
newscientist.com/article/216911…
