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The Effect of Birth Rate on Economic Productivity
The vast majority of global wealth is in developed countries. In average, for the past 300 years if you put money on the stock market, that money would grow on average. That happened because the number of workers in those economies was growing exponentially. And the productivity per worker in those economies were growing linearly. So there is an exponential component to it, but it is linear in contrast to the effect of birth rate on the economic productivity increase of a country.