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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.

If history is any guide, none of this will work: No matter what governments do to convince them to procreate, people around the world are having fewer and fewer kids.

In the US, the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession, dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. Today, the average American woman has about 1.6 children, down from three in 1950, and significantly below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children needed to sustain a stable population. In Italy, 12 people now die for every seven babies born. In South Korea, the birth rate is down to 0.81 children per woman. In China, after decades of a strictly enforced one-child policy, the population is shrinking for the first time since the 1960s. In Taiwan, the birth rate stands at 0.87.

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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is good from an employment perspective as we move to AI and automation, replacing 2.4 million US jobs by 2030. We are getting to the point where you will need to work in a specialized trade or be highly educated in a specialized field if you want a paycheck. All low-skill jobs will be replaced by AI or automation.

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[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

We have more than enough people.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

For no amount of money would O give up all my free time and sleep

[-] Saltblue@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I would love to have kids, a couple, one girl one boy. But not in this fucked up system.

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[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I was gonna do a Victoria 3 joke about activating the +10% birthrate bonus if your government is liked by the major religious group but I don't know if many will understand it here.

This mentions row v wade and abortion and I saw just the other day the birth rate is going up in the red states. Now is the birth rate going up faster than the death rate in the red states?

For whatever reason the death rate was higher in the red states versus the blue after 2020 and I'm not sure if it has gone down pre 2020 levels

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