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===== The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse ===== | |||
[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/ by Marc Novicoff 30/6/25 The Atlanyic] | |||
First, the bad news: Global fertility is falling fast. The aging populations of rich countries are relying on ever fewer workers to support their economy, dooming those younger generations to a future of higher taxes, higher debt, or later retirement—or all three. Birth rates in middle-income countries are also plummeting, putting their economic development at risk. Practically the only countries set to continue growing are desperately poor. | |||
===== Humans could face reproductive crisis as sperm count declines, study finds ===== | ===== Humans could face reproductive crisis as sperm count declines, study finds ===== | ||
