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Its time to move on from the woman education and children health care cliche talking points. Its very 2000. Its no longer a interesting question for the world

Its time to move on from the woman education and children health care cliche talking points. Its very 2000. Its no longer a interesting question for the world at large. Africa and a few others are the only hold outs, and while they deserve those things, it shouldn't be the go to talking points w.r.t. world population. The vast majority of places is by all measures destined for a population collapse. In many places there is a bump in the population pyramid around child bearing age as we speak. That bump isn't even close to replacement fertility, and in 10 years the people in that age brackets are so few that their fertility won't be significant for total population numbers. Population stabilization is a subject for 30 years from now. First we're getting a population collapse and we should be talking about it.

VictorPath 4y ago
World population is growing 1% a year. If you go back a century, world population never grew that fast in human history (except perhaps the dawn of human history). There is no global population collapse happening or on the horizon, this past century has had the fastest human growth rate in history, including now (the peak was the world baby boom in the 1960s). There are countries where population is falling, and policy has to account for it, but there is not a global population collapse right now at all. Only if you measure against the peak baby boom of the 1960s does it seem less.
- anthonypasq 4y ago
  most of the developed world is experiencing population decline if you exclude immigration.
- beiller 4y ago
  I wonder how up to date that 1% number is? From what I understand China has recently passed the zero to now be in negative population growth territory in 2022. Other countries have led the way. From my understanding, India is still in the positive territory but it is trending towards the negative as is the growing global trend it seems.

VictorPath 4y ago

World population is growing 1% a year. If you go back a century, world population never grew that fast in human history (except perhaps the dawn of human history). There is no global population collapse happening or on the horizon, this past century has had the fastest human growth rate in history, including now (the peak was the world baby boom in the 1960s). There are countries where population is falling, and policy has to account for it, but there is not a global population collapse right now at all. Only if you measure against the peak baby boom of the 1960s does it seem less.

anthonypasq 4y ago
most of the developed world is experiencing population decline if you exclude immigration.
beiller 4y ago
I wonder how up to date that 1% number is? From what I understand China has recently passed the zero to now be in negative population growth territory in 2022. Other countries have led the way. From my understanding, India is still in the positive territory but it is trending towards the negative as is the growing global trend it seems.