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The World’s Biggest Population Fear Has Flipped – and It Could Change Everything

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By Liz Allen
| SciTechDaily
As birth rates fall below replacement levels across much of the world, concerns are shifting from overpopulation to the economic and social consequences of aging and shrinking populations. Credit: Shutterstock Falling birth rates reveal a deeper social problem: many people who want children feel blocked by economic, housing, gender, and climate pressures. Birth rates have been falling around the world since the height of the baby boom that followed the Second World War.
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Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters

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By Liz Allen, Sadie Harley, Andrew Zinin Verified
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Our World in Data Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom. Birth rates have now reached below replacement in most of the world, including Australia. Put simply, populations on average aren't replacing themselves. Everyone from Elon Musk to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to the pope have opinions on declining total fertility (or birth) rates—the average number of births per woman.
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Depopulation raises deep global generational concerns

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By Liz Allen
| Newsreel Verified
By Liz Allen Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-second world war baby boom. Birth rates have now reached below replacement in most of the world, including Australia. Put simply, populations on average aren’t replacing themselves. Everyone from Elon Musk to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to the pope have opinions on declining total fertility (or birth) rates – the average number of births per woman.
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