According to the UN Population Division’s World Fertility 2024 report, 131 of the 237 countries and areas it tracks now have fertility below 2.1 births per woman, the rough level a population needs to replace itself without migration. Those countries are home to about 68 per cent of the world’s people. The global average fertility [...] The post More than two-thirds of the world’s people now live in countries having too few children to hold their populations steady — a quiet reversal, crossed gradually over the past two decades, that demographers say will reshape economies, cities and old age within a single lifetime. appeared first on Space Daily .
More than two-thirds of the world’s people now live in countries having too few children to hold their populations steady — a quiet reversal, crossed gradually over the past two decades, that demographers say will reshape economies, cities and old age within a single lifetime.
