Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde on Demographic Trends, Recent Macroeconomic Developments, and AI’s Implications for Economic Growth
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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The Humanities Demographic Future
Three articles that I'm going to use for the show will provide links to them on other on your web page. The first one's called humanities demographic future and in it you mentioned that we're about eight billion now will peak about nine and a half billion 2050 to 2060. But then we're going to fall after that and you use as a case study South Korea. So let me walk us through South Korea and why it's so useful to look at it. And because the fertility rate now in 2023 they are going to be around 0.7. That basically means that every woman on average is going to have 0.7 kids. For the very first time since 200,000
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