GoatGuy’s Comment on the Global Depopulation Crisis

March 30, 2024March 23, 2024 by Brian Wang

Nextbigfuture has tried to simplify the reason why global population decline is not something to be ignored. While the world was fine when we had 4 billion people in 1974, we will be deep into disaster if the world population declines to 4 billion in 2080-2120. Fertile women would drop to 5% of the population …

Lancet Forecasts Failure of Pro-Baby Policies and Global Population Collapse

March 21, 2024 by Brian Wang

Here are the key points of a Lancet study on global fertility. Global Fertility rates will continue to collapse even if all countries adopt the current best pro-baby policies (childcare subsidies, extended parental leave, insurance coverage expansion for infertility treatment). Future fertility rates were would drop to a global TFR (total fertility rate) of 1·83 …