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Heh. Silly American thoughts. This site[0] says Global birthrate is around 17.3. However, it has been dropping ~1% a year. It was 19.3 in 2014 and today it is
by fbdab103 2y ago
Heh. Silly American thoughts.
This site[0] says Global birthrate is around 17.3. However, it has been dropping ~1% a year. It was 19.3 in 2014 and today it is 17.3. So indeed growing more slowly, but a strong trendline downwards.
Table copied and limited to the decades:
Year Birth Rate Growth Rate
2024 17.299 -0.940%
2020 18.077 -1.120%
2010 19.991 -0.870%
2000 21.733 -1.090%
1990 26.094 -2.400%
1980 28.192 -0.530%
1970 32.995 -1.520%
1960 35.346 -0.110%
1950 37.844 0.000%
[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/world/birth-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/wor...
- Zod666 2y agoYou started with fertility rate and switched to birth rate. The world fertility rate is 2.4 so just a bit above the maintenance 2.1 level. But in pretty much all developed countries the fertility rate is well below replacement rates and no signs of it levelling off. In developed countries, more and more the norm is to not have children, or fewer of them later and later in live. Personally I don't think it's a good thing when we start closing schools cause there's not enough children to attend them but that's just me.