July 21, 2020
An Old Age
James Doogue observes:
Declining Fertility Means the World's Population will Fall
Tim observes:
Declining birth rates is going to play hell with the ubiquitous social welfare and pension schemes. The young are going to be squeezed to death by this. We need to make plans now, but we've never found a way around the ponzi schemes.
Good news for those worried about over population. The current global population is 7.8 billion. This is projected to peak at 9.87 billion by 2064. By 2100 the global population will have declined to 8.8 billion.
This is based on projecting fertility trends in developed countries and anticipating that will continue as developing nations improve their levels of education and standard of living.
Of course that doesn't account for any cult/religion which might discourage contraception, or others which encourage breeding to displace other populations.
Nevertheless, the projections are promising.
Tim observes:
Declining birth rates is going to play hell with the ubiquitous social welfare and pension schemes. The young are going to be squeezed to death by this. We need to make plans now, but we've never found a way around the ponzi schemes.
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