Almost unthinkable just a decade ago, India have followed the rest of the world, where more middle class people means fewer children. That’s down from 3.3 across the 2000s. It isn’t just that though… while they didn’t have a strict one-child policy like China, the government did push the idea of having less kids, and …
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Shock US Population Stat – Under Fives
Between the census of 2020 and the census of 2025, the number of children in the US declined by 2.4%. More telling is the 7% drop in kids under 5, since 2016. If this trend continues, that means school class sizes will shrink (until they consolidate with any appropriate nearby school), or the number of …
Hungary 1.4 to 1.6 to ?
I have mentioned many times how countries seeking to inspire people to have more children mostly fails. They offer too little to make a difference, their approaches are nowhere near bold enough. And too often they focus on short-term bonuses and benefits, rather than long-term. Free child-care is one of the best policies. Hungary has …
China Needs Some Shock and Awe
Incremental improvements to what China offers to their people to inspire them to have more children will never be enough. They need to think of what a decade’s worth of bribes will look like and put them all on the table, all at once, so people take notice and seriously consider it. Otherwise, it is …
How To Get More White Citizens
NOTE: I am a putting on my futurist hat, and making predictions based on current trends. I do not want these ideas to happen. GDP is evil and capitalism will fail… There is a trending opinipon and totally due to the racism of Donald Trump: the only good immigrants are white. Combine that with the …
721 Schools Close in Greece
Greece currently has a fertility rate of only 1.3, and the effects are already kicking in. This year more than 700 schools (out of 13,000 total) will close because they do not have 15 students to remain viable. To be fair, the minimum student requirement has been rising, meaning the huge numbers are a bit …
Wars hasten population decline – who knew?
Russia’s population is decreasing quite rapidly. WSJ says: At least 150,000 Russians are dead on the battlefield, according to Western estimates. Nearly a million fled the country after the war began. The number of births is at its lowest in more than two decades, with bigger-than-average drops in babies born in some regions closest to …
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Korean Government Encourages Blind Dates
As an experiment it was interesting, from 50 men and 50 women, just over 50% of them rated each other in the top 3 matches, for 27 couples who can now go on a date. But just like UBI, it is a limited experiment. There will be no desire to expand it greatly. And if …
Cuba down 18% in one year
Low fertility affects populations, but slowly, because people live for 80 years or so. Cuba doesn’t have a fertility problem, it has a “I don’t want to live here any more” problem. There can be a snowball effect – the more of your relatives have fled to Florida, the more appealing it becomes to go …
Russia goes Authoritative / Next Level on Fertility
It has been clear over the last few years that incentives and positive reinforcement are not helping stem reduced fertility levels in countries globally. At best they are making the decline less bad, but not stopping it. For counties with an iron grip over their citizens, unimaginable responses might occur. Keep in mind China’s historical, …
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