Here are some very basic statistics, to give you an idea of why we are on a journey towards too few children, below the replacement rate of 2.1 per woman: Globally the fertility rate has dropped from 5 to 2.4 (children per woman) between 1970 and 2016. In high income countries it is already below …
Monthly Archives: July 2022
700 Million More Elderlies
Most people are aware of how declining fertility rates, and longer life spans, means that demographics of advanced economies is trending towards more older people. Japan is the common example of where it is currently a problem, but it will be a global issue to content with later this century. A figure from a study …