Can't say I subscribe to any great panic over this. Endless growth capitalism is destroying the planet. It'll be challenging coming up with another economic model, but we can do it.
"By the end of this century, the research predicts just six nations – half of which are in sub-Saharan Africa – will have a fertility level above the replacement rate."
Migration is not Australia’s biggest population problem - declining birth rates and rising death rates are
@timrichards Can't access that article (not complaining!) but have done a short course in Modern Monetary Theory (degrowth) and Doughnut Economics (justice, equity, climate friendly). Highly recommend. If the whole world adopted these strategies we'd possibly save ourselves from environmental collapse, but it's a big IF.
Canada setting a blistering population growth of 3.2% in 2023! The most since the 1950s! Back then the baby boom was still a thing. Today, there were only 40,000 more births than deaths, 97.6% of the growth came from immigration. Over 471,000 people settled here, 800,000 came as temporary workers and others came as international students, asylum seekers, etc. Our population is 40.7 Million. #CanPoli#Immigration#Population#CdnPoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/population-growth-canada-2023-1.7157233
As China faces a population decline and low birth rates, hospitals in the country are shutting down their newborn delivery services because of the decreased demand. The Chinese Communist Party pulled a major reversal of their long-running one-child policy in 2016, but they are having little success convincing citizens to have more children. Young people say high unemployment, economic instability and the lack of resources for caregivers make starting a family too difficult. Read more from Semafor.