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Why are birth rates plummeting? And how much does it matter? (with Malcolm & Simone Collins)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Prosperity, Gender Equality, and Access to Education

From 2010 to 2020, US fertility rates declined by 15.9% and ended the decade at 1.64. For every 100 living Americans, there will be 3.7 great grandkids in 2050. The effects of low fertility do not cause a population to crash when they first appear. It takes about one generation for that to happen. Once a majority of a society's population reaches a certain age, there's nothing that society can do to reverse a population collapse.

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