There is a worldwide trend of lowering fertility rates. In fact many countries are below the birth rate needed to replace the people in a country. This replacement-rate stands at 2.1 children per woman. As you can see in the above picture (and in the graph in the video below) much of the current world has a fertility rate lower than 2.1. Taiwan (1.09) and South Korea (1.11) have the lowest fertility rate and African countries like Niger (6.73) and Angola (5.76) have the highest (1) (as of 2023).

Below you can watch Daniel Hess (2,3) give a description of the rather sad state of affairs.

In my home country, the Netherlands we have a mortality rate that is higher than the birth rate (4). So there are actually more people dying than are being born. This didn’t happen since the year 1900.

We have spoken a bit about fertility in connection to the Covid-vaccine (6). We also showed some developments in the maternal mortality (7). Larry Fink gave a reason why he thought it could be a positive thing to have decreasing populations (8).

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FOOTNOTES
(1) Total Fertility Rate
(2) Daniel Hess on Substack and his More Births X-account
(3) https://x.com/stephanlivera/status/1818863569225588958 (August 1, 2024)
(4) CBS: voor het eerst sinds 1900 minder geboorte dan sterfte in Nederland
(5) Bevolking in eerste kwartaal 2024 minder gegroeid – see the shorter rows in the diagram (levendgeborenen= living births; overledenen=deaths)
(6) Naomi Wolf on the Effects of the Covid Vaccines on the Reproduction System
(7) Maternal Mortality in US went up in 2021 and 2022 but is now only slightly higher than 2019
(8) CEO Black Rock, Larry Fink: The Big Winners are Countries with Shrinking Populations