What declining birth rates mean for the world | BBC News
What declining birth rates mean for the world | BBC News
This week, South Korea broke its own world record for the lowest birth rate in the world.
230,000 babies were born there last year, in a country with a population over 50 million.
But declining birth rates isn’t exclusive to South Korea, with the trend affecting numerous countries across the world – including the UK.
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Maybe reatructure the economy so it doesn't rely on consistant growth?
Oh, im sorry, that would cost a few people MONEY. I'll just give up my rights.
Nobody is mentioning a simple truth: old people don't live forever. And then things will be balanced once again. This is temporary. Have patience, be kind to the elders,and then the problem will solve by itself. I don't understand the panic, unless you see it from todays economic standards. Which is a good thing, because we are urgently needing a new zeitgeist in the economic world: our economy is still based on XIX century standards. About time we create a new type of growth.
Marriage sucks. Having children sucks. Pregnancy should be a crime.
Shrug dumb F elites brought this on themselves. Maybe decrease the cost of living, stop protecting the mentally ill I mean… Wokefolk, lower the cost of housing, transition to a Scandinavian model of economy, stop taxing the F out of BOTH working parents and maybe we might have the energy and resources to consider having more than two kids.
Oh wait… They'd have to have 3 Yachts instead of 12. Tragedy.
The world thought Japan had the lowest birth rate then comes South Korea with way below 1.0 💀
Boomers: don't have children of you can't afford them
Everyone: okay
Boomers: REEEEE!!!!
There are too many humans on Earth. This is a good thing given the climate crisis. Unfortunately the intelligent are being replaced by an Idiocracy. Particularly an Idiocracy with a theological bent.
Thanos: doesn't exist
Society: "Fine, I'll do it myself"
It means less slaves for Rich & government.
Academia and the pie in the sky approach. Don't fuck just import labor, until Sharia law cancels your hereditary claim to your country and you become their slave. Fuck the WEF and Agenda 21. All the work of Luciferians.
Growth based on population is a hoax anyway. A never ending tunnel to the doom unless we colonise Mars somehow, make life sustainable and ship a billion people over there.
It means there may yet be hope for the planet and everything else besides us that's alive on it.
This is great news. Forget the eternal Ponzi scheme dreams of economists. The planet cannot afford 9 or 10 billion people.
The EU has falling birth rates because of their devotion to "free" trade. Reinstate import tariffs and the industrial labor union middle class will return
Asia's policies are not working because of their working conditions. How is anybody going to start a family if they're working more than 40 hours a week?
it's becoming increasingly difficult to provide for ourselves, let alone children. I can't afford kids.
Population boomed from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 8.2 billion. The world has been mined, developed, extracted, paved and polluted but the homeless and poor abound. Wars are continuous. This guy thinks population may begin declining next century? There isn't going to be a next century for 13 billion fashionably dressed, palacialy housed, cool motoring hip monkeys. Climate change my butt. There is an everything problem – not enough food, too much plastic, toxins in the water, extinction of every other species, no pollinators, not enough gas, not enough plastic, not enough construction material, not enough ethics, too much YouTube …….. plus I'll be gone. Then what will the little ones do?
One the father or the mother needs to be able not to work or work half time
It's only a certain demographic that has a declining birthrate…and truth be told it's the sun thats causing this not the lack of money…the sun is making nonoriginal humans to go sterile
It means the time for Wakana has come
The birthrate conversation is very discriminating… western world wants more for them and less for others 🤔
This world is crap so why would you bring in another human being into the world?
That's good news for antinatalist like me.
Liberals, LGTB etc. DINK,
Only briefly mentioned is @4:30 an even bigger problem with explosive birth rates, "high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries". If you look at projected population growth in some parts of the world, for example sub-Saharan Africa and sub-continental Asia, it is an alarming threat just how many more humans there will be on Earth and in particular among developing nations where many people cannot even afford to properly support their children. Also some of the biggest cities in these regions are predicted to double by 2050. For example Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lagos in Nigeria, and Dhaka in Bangladesh are set to be among the largest cities on Earth in a decade or two, not to mention every megacity in India which are already way overcrowded. The message is clear: Stop Having So Many Babies!
The world doesnt deserved another innocent chils.
Earth = HELL
World is cruel.
Culture. You have made a culture that people don't approve of globally. Until that is fixed, rates will continue to decline.
Who in their right mind would want to birth a kid into a world that looks as it does at the present?
0:38 To maintain populations in western developed countries. In poorer countries the number is higher because of higher child mortalities.
Currently our population is beyond the carrying capacity of the Earth given current technology. AI enhanced automation should allow production to be maintained even with an aging population.