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Once a problem far in the future, the population crisis is arriving earlier than expected after the Covid baby bust.

📉 Populations in countries including Japan are already in decline, while those in the likes of Spain and China are set to halve by 2100

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Deaths are set to outstrip births as soon as 2025 and new policies will soon be needed to cope with an ageing population

This is what you need to know about the depopulation timebomb 👇
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❓When does the UN predict the global population to peak?

It's 2100!

The UN expects the global population to peak around 2100, but other experts - and Musk - believe that is far too optimistic.

📅One startling scenario predicts the top to be in 2064.

🧓In developed countries, longer life spans and falling fertility rates mean societies are ageing rapidly with many soon unable to maintain their populations as deaths outstrip birth

❓How long will a boy born in the UK in 2020 expect to live until?

It's 87!

📅A girl born in the UK in 2020 can expect to live until over 90

The UK’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.6 births per woman, but remains above Spain’s at 1.2, Japan’s at 1.4 and Germany’s at 1.5.

🇨🇳China's one-child policy meant that its population is now ageing rapidly

❓How many years was the policy in place for?

It's 35 years!

The economics of the crisis poses huge challenges for governments.

💸Without policy action, an older society sucks more money for health and social care spending and pension payments.

Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Population, is more sanguine on the threat, however, saying medical advances and encouraging healthy lifestyles can push working lives into their 60s and 70s
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The population collapse is looming - and far faster than previously thought

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