“Like an avalanche, the demographic forces pushing toward more deaths than births seem to be expanding and accelerating. Though some countries continue to grow, especially in Africa, fertility rates are falling nearly everywhere else.” (1/x) nytimes.com/2021/05/22/wor…
“Demographers now predict that by the latter half of the century or possibly earlier, the global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.”
“The 20th century presented a very different challenge. The global population saw its greatest increase in known history, from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000, as life spans lengthened and infant mortality declined.”
“In some countries—about a third of the world—those dynamics are still in play. By 2100, Nigeria could surpass China in population; across sub-Saharan Africa, families are still having four or five children. But nearly everywhere else, the era of high fertility is ending.”
“Even in countries long associated with rapid growth, such as India and Mexico, birthrates are falling toward, or are already below, the replacement rate of 2.1 children per family.” (X/x)
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