Will Japan's Population Death Spiral?
Fertility is dropping very rapidly worldwide. We do not know precisely why, although changing cultural norms, increasing access to contraceptive technology, rising incomes, urbanization, and even hormone-disrupting pollution could all play a role. Look at the following table of selected countries from the prolific Twitter account Birth Gauge:First, we see that a wide range of countries are below the replacement total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.1 children per woman. Second, we find that the fertil...
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