Would You Have Kids Today? Economist’s Dark Warning About the Future
The global total fertility rate fell below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman in 2023 for the first time in 200,000 years, signaling that the world population is likely to peak within the next 30 years before entering a long-term decline. Key drivers of this “baby bust” include economic insecurity (high housing costs, childcare expenses, and student debt), gender inequality in the workplace, and existential …