What declining birth rates mean for the world | BBC News 

That and some ''help'' from the western diet and the jabs . But i have to mention some factors in nature the will infect to reproduce , less magnetic field , more cosmic rays and thats not the only effect on the life on the planet .

Nailed it

Also cultural issues in the west, I don’t believe this poverty leads to less children otherwise historically most of the world would have had low fertility rates but they didn’t, a large part of this is the fact that western cultures do not put emphasis on pride on one’s self and duty to bloodline whilst countries like Israel do.

You're right. It's so stressful to live a life because of inflation.

⁠@@2trappy2Looking a bit more into Israel’s birth rate. It looks like it can mainly relate to the original comment. Israel has a few exceptional policies which make it easier to balance work/education and personal life. Also they fund fertility treatments which is huge for women who choose to have children later in life. So it seems making it so growing a family is a smoother experience really does contribute to stable fertility.

And men luv

​@@MixologistMiloNot really. This is specially a widespread issue for women in countries with falling birth rates. In South Korea and Japan with the lowest birth rates, their brutal education and work sytems require women to work full-time as men do, but all work within the home is seen is seen as exclusively as a womens work. So both work equally hard, but childcare, cleaning, cooking, groceries, laundry, appointments are delegated to women, exclusively.

Yep, women are forced to do more then what we can complete. We are burned out

@@mspaint93 Well that'd explain the low birthrates in South Korea. But not in western countries where men do just as much housework.

@@MrNote-lz7lh But they don't do just as much housework, as a populous. You can look into the endless studies done on this where (again, on average) in a household with two full time working parents, the mother does the majority of childrearing and housework.

That’s why I think the republicans taking away women’s right, less slave labor if a women has a choice

Exactly

It means the people who have children will inherit the earth. It means Islam will rule the world and feminism and everything the left cares about will be in vain because they didn't care to sustain the population and allowed their society to collapse.

It also means extinction 😂

More migrants! Less abortion! More slaves! Less money!

No problem. Bring in people from Sudan. They have nothing, but their average fertility rate is 4.5 children per woman. They will be homeless, but apparently they don't care 🤷‍♂

This. Add to the fact if someone has health issues (like myself) especially chronic ones how the hell can they then manage more stress / responsibilities than they already have ? For me, I have to constantly go to doctor appointments, get tests and procedures done every now and then and still have to balance my 40 hour work week. No way could I manage children / additional responsibilities. Maybe it’s just me though.

So well said! You have summed it up perfectly.

Incorrect. The Baby Boom was a consequence of warfare concluding. Historically population growth increases after a long war, due to the returning number of fighting males to their settlements. You can NOT engineer growth, you can only engineer away from decline in the best of times.

Can you prove the baby boom was this engineered? Otherwise, BS.

Very good response

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Most of my Japanese friends only have one or two kids, but they want more, the only issue is that their husbands come home exhausted and don’t want to have sex at all. My girlfriends, when we get together, will talk about that often. Makes my heart hurt for them, because they rarely see their husbands at all, but when they come home it’s straight to bed, then straight to work.

Inflation is also the biggest factor, the reason some people not wanting to have more children is simple, MONEY! When you don't have enough money to sustain child care and your kid's college, parents are more likely to have 1 kid and that's it, 2 or more is already a challenge. Education, clothes and food to put in their mouth are the primary challenges to fulfill via money but gets reduced due to inflation.

I am a foreigner working in China. Chinese law stipulates that the working hours are a max of 40 hours per week. Many people want to work more and many do. Employers can be fined for forcing workers to do more hours than their contracts state and all workers have to be paid double their hourly rate for any hours worked over the limit.

@@teflerchina.2987 only in the foreign cooperation

​@teflerchina.2987 You are right China is a champion of workers rights. They have the safest working conditions in the world. Chinese factories are the safest places to work.

They mean WHITE BABIES.

I've never heard Tucker Carlson say something like that without prefacing it with the relevant issues at hand like housing, low wages, and government disincentives.

Do you expect middle-class moms to stand in front of the world and present these insights instead? It doesn't matter who says it. They are discussing demographic trends and their implications.

I have heard women talk about how other people need to have more kids. That includes a rich, child-free lesbian businesswoman who said that other women should have more kids so that she will have more workers and customers.

honestly idk about tucker, but i do know elon procreates like a rabbit

Rich people will have fewer indentured servants so they're panicking.

The problem is in countries where there is a growing aging population, there aren't enough young people to support them, not just through taxes to pay their pension but also with all the services that old people need. It's becoming unbalanced in many countries. It affects the quality of your life if you live in a country with a declining population.

Mother nature is just correcting itself.

The issue is that you will have one grandchild per four grandparents. Elderly people can't work after a certain point, nor support themselves. You'll start seeing old people dying in the streets. Governments will become insolvent trying to support them. This kind of change is only bad because it's happening suddenly. If it happened over a couple centuries it would be a better thing. But not for it to happen suddenly.

A Lower population may be good but a declining population is not. See the difference?

brilliant!

You're getting paid in many European countries and people still don't want kids.

​@@jojoball11Yeah all that welfare and standard of living to have the birth rate 1/8 of a slum in Bangladesh

Like university education

@@jojoball11 you cant buy another generaration of slaves from us.

Yep!

The sheep are becoming rams..

True

The wolves will import in goats to replace you

@@nixonesport1998 someone that's not born can't be replaced

lol. never heard that one

Certainly not in todays world.

You mean certain economies are designed to afford anything. Even if you could feed your children, the economy will just pull more from your pockets. I can’t plant a garden with my children without someone saying “you didn’t pay us to inspect your property before digging”.

It is OK, the elites are doing fine, and don't need workers any more, as we now have robots to look after us and do all of the work.

@@jaredmackey4511 Nobody will be paying them if they can't feed their families anyway. So, their job will become obsolete and counterproductive.

Absolutely. Im nearly 60, never for a nanosecond have I wanted a child. Had I been born 100 years earlier I would have had children - poor contraception and societal expectations

Well at least your genes will be gone, which means more life for those of us that will be left, and we will have robots to do the work, so we elites don't need you or yours.

It would be interesting to ask the parents but I don’t think you’d get an honest answer

I laugh whenever kids under 20 lecture me about how I will regret it and feel lonely

Thank you, finally some facts!! I suspect that gay people no longer being forced to hode in our closets and play straight probably has an impact as well. In the 50s it was common for gays to have to hide, and so they'd marry a woman and procreate, often with great disgust, whereas now we can be more or less free to live our liges and not ever have to touch a breeder.

This is the most important reason

Totally agree, me 2 ​@@realpolitics527

This 100%. The system is against real people who might want to have kids.

Nah, it's not that. It's just not worth it anymore. The more advanced is the society, the less desire women have to have babies, because they could be doing something more interesting.

Are you in a committed relationship with a stable person? That's more rare than housing these days. IMO. My sister and I were discussing my cousin's choice of a wife. "She must look good in a swimming suit." quote from another cousin about our cousin My sister who had a baby that took a life flight to a neonatal unit said: that's what people should see when choosing a spouse cause you might end up in a place like that.

Same situation in the US. 37 yr old male, decent income, still can’t afford a home, let alone a family.

British man with above average income. Please travel the world. You will realise the problem you're having can be fixed somewhere else. I guarantee you that. Your income can make you a king somewhere in Africa, you just need to accept change.

@@TitusBiwot Way ahead of you 😏 I recommend this to people who feel trapped as well

You're in a better position to raise children than 99% of humans who have ever existed so I don't get what you're complaining about. My grandparents were raising children in a country where there was civil war. For me to say I feel uncertain about having children in 2024 Britain would be pathetic.

What is happening is natural selection, survival of the fittest, and the most intelligent. I win, you lose.

Unfortunate reality is the population is still going to go up and will go up to 10 billion in our life time. However that population is from low iq countries, high iq countries are no longer breeding, which makes the future pretty concerning.

Not so fast. Sadly Natural selection means Africans will become the majority 100 years later since they have the most kids and the population would increase again. For context Africa makes up 18% of the world pop today but by 2100 it would make up 39% of it

@@tunisian_stats u sure u not talking about hispanics?

@@sacredgeometry4196 nope africans reproduce much more their population doubled in the last 20 years. It’s mainly because they are poor

@@tunisian_stats There is famine and poverty in some countries in Africa. What is the lifespan of Africans? Will there be quality life in a world with climate change? They say there will be extreme drought in Africa because of climate change.

Absolutely correct

Who’s going to pay for your pension

​@@1jakedizzlewho's gonna pay for the children right this moment

Exactly. I think this is the elephant in the room. How is it that with technological advancement we have become materially worse off than our parents before us.

They may make it as viable as they want, I'm not falling for it

Exactly this. Birthrates were higher in the past because child mortality was high and parents had babies so they could put those children to work...

@@crazitacomost kids are born in the third world not the first so technically more kids are suffering

But they make more money off the starving ones…

@@wussrestbrook1200Third world doesn’t automatically mean they’re suffering. Just as first world doesn’t always mean prosperous people. It’s just another way of dividing humans.

Exactly

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. No one is talking about what the plant can a afford

We don’t need so many Africans and Arabs. We need more Europeans

@@mattmccallum2007You already caused 2 world wars and are about to start a third with your silly NATO expansion and provoking Russia and China. Let’s see how other races fare without your warmongering.

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair.And the people that have no control over their lives.

Once you have money, you don't want to ever be poor again.

Reminds me of those Escape to the Country episodes where everyone complains about the traffic as their reason for the move when what they really wanted to state was too many immigrants.

If you raise children the same way as before, you will be criticized nowadays. Too much responsibility and burden now.

It's called feminism,.

@@sitrepSNAFU Many feminists have kids.

Until you call a plumber or someone to fix your roof, with limited competition.

​@@michaelellringer5600well that's an easy one to answer, less plumbers and less humans means your issues can be focused on with less competition for appointments

​@@michaelellringer5600better environment

Well one another corona...and humanity is clean... Well if you don't like humanity to continue living then it is okay.

​@@michaelellringer5600unless you are a plumber.

I moved to the north east of England, 350k can get a 5/6 bed detached. I know its not possible for everyone but its an option.

@@Jonnyicey Fair enough, but the issue is that there aren't many job opportunities in the North-East of England, because our country is insanely unequal. I suppose if you land yourself a decent and secure remote job, it might be a good idea. Even then you're still leaving behind your social network from home.

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. And Our resources are running low.

yes, the "expert scientists" stated this that certain civilizations (ethnicities) would die out...

please dont. not with that user name.

​@@cinnamonstar808let's not pretend your username is good either 😏

@@pepper2240 I was raised right

Same

@@cinnamonstar808 You sound very astute. Do you think the guy named NarutoNinjaMaster4534 is really a shadow warrior?

Politicians or the investor class?

​@@FlyingImmortalis there a difference?

Democracy is to blame. It leads to the female vote. Which leads to reproductive rights. Which puts the birth rates below replacement level. This leads to mass migration and population replacement

How to spot a zoomer

Nailed it

Well said. My sentiments exactly

True

that comment was neither intelligent, nore kind.

people who think like this do not realize how a demographic decline will affect standards of living across the board

@@ryansuryoatmojo1770 Why should I care about that when I can't afford for myself a life, even less for a child???... Why should people who don't have a stable economy have a kid?? It is going to be worse for the kid

If u don't want to reproduce stop reproducing your ideology and stfu. Some of us want to fix the world not sit around and watch it burn.

There's no need for excuses because if you don't want to have kids you shouldn't have to. A stranger online basically telling you as a woman it's your place to struggle just to have kids who will struggle with you doesn't care about you or children.

​@JG-MV The US doesn't offer paternity/maternity leave, nor does it have a good healthcare system that won't leave you straddled with debt once the baby is born. Retirement probably won't be a thing once OP is older and shootings and mental Healthcare isn't taken much more seriously than it needs to along with climate change and AI. Why would anyone have a kid with those conditions?

@@JG-MVshit is expensive there are excuses. And people can’t do anything about birth rate because u can’t force anyone to have kids

Excuses. If you be a good parent to your child that's enough. They will thrive well.

The world only appears to be stressful because you are an idiot.

Very well done sir! I'm planning of getting vasectomy too. Was it painful?

@@Tailsthef0xPAINLESS!! A finger prick is more painful than a Vasectomy!!

The world has never been a perfect place though. Most of history has been a story of struggle in one way or another, yet our ancestors had some of the highest birth rates.

​@PeggyPearlB The reason you mentioned is why they had many kids, so atleast some of them can survive.

Exactly

People used to not to think Do they want kids, they just had them, cause it was socially expected.

Scientists have already declared Planet Earth to be dead!

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Oh I know. You are having a real hard time now, on youtube. It's tough man. That facebook isn't going to scroll itself, ya know.

@@bobmcbobbington9220 It's called a lack of job security. People watch RU-vid to pass the time and avoid spending money.

Not necessarily a push for more profit, but there's way more competition than there used to be.

Humanity will survive yes, but our country/culture/civilization may not. Other civilizations that have a more balanced approach to life will simply take over.

Of course people can raise 2 kids on 1 income. People are wasting money on luxuries and talking about affordability. Did your parents/ grandparents purchased phones every year, did they go on expensive vacations every year, did they eat out almost everyday ? In contrast, compare how you are living.

@@White-nl8td I don't buy new phones every year. Eating out as a single person in some countries is actually also cheaper than cooking at home.

@@Epiphany_nz no, eating out cannot be cheaper than cooking at home ever. The restaurant have to purchase groceries, pay the cook workers, pay taxes and on top of that make atleast 25% profit. In contrast, cooking at home only requires you to purchase groceries and spend the time to cook. Your problem is you are not at home to cook whilst running around for your career.

@@White-nl8td# Lots of people need to run around to make a living. If you are eating in expensive restaurants, yes your point apply. But what I'm talking about is if you've been in places like the biggest industrial countries like China and India and look how the locals eat and their Takeaways/street food, you'll see that it does not cost as much for them if you compare the costs of food per person to the west.

Well, if the burden is more than you can bear, you can always surrender the child. If the child is under two, there would be little or no problem "placing" the child.

@@GilmerJohnthere are not enough people who are willing and capable to take on other's people failures to bear on forever.

@@14margott -- Well, the system may well collapse some time or another. But if you as a business or a person are sitting on a pile of money you either but "stuff" (toys, gold, land) or loan it out. Timing is everything.

@@GilmerJohnlol why have the child in the first place? 😂 your solution is so stup¡d Avoid pregnancy, avoid ruining your body and suffering post partum depression or psychosis 🙌🏻

@@MM-we4nolol. He suggested that bc chidren with no mothers are easy pickings for men. Notice I don’t say predators. I said MEN. Bc men, their biology is PREDATOR. That means the ALL are. Easy pickings. They get you to abandon your child and now easily traumatized and singled out for their sexual deviancy.

More like, Government: things are expensive but people won’t complain or notice

Not just the government. Dont forget your big corporations. Walmart and its ilk who make billions and still have the spine to ask for a 2$ donation to help fight hunger they and their fellow modern day slavery camps created.

The UK has all those things but worse. More expensive housing, groceries and energy. Significantly lower paying jobs too. At least we have free healthcare, but that’s also overwhelmed.

same in the uk. In america your poverty is much worse but your middle class is very rich compared to the UKs middle class. We earn terrible wages and have extortionate taxes. Drs, nurses, teachers, military officers, policemen all live their entire lives in poverty in the uk

You can have lots of children on $2.00s a day! Yeah ,but there's that pesky feeding and clothing them and of course they're going to want shelter! Get real even livi g a modest life children are too expensive.

Not for the Muslims. Look at the Palestinians. They can be fed by the tax dollars from the western countries.

plus bringing a child into this society? questionable itself

@@bloodlove93 because EVERYTHING has to be political, everything.

Pre feminism they were affordable

​@@sitrepSNAFUtrue only to live in poverty and domastic violence

Spot on. Permanent growth is the modus operandi of the cancer cell.

Wars caused by the west ruined our planet and lives. Say the truth.

Resources are fininte

Moronic argument.

Aging population + low fertility rates + welfare State = disaster. In order for a welfare State to function you need children. Unless you want to abolish the welfare State or make 80 years work then this is just privileged thinking on your part.

No birth, no creating artistic masterpieces that resonate uniquely with humanity, no feeling the thrill of exceptional experiences that set us apart, no heartwarming love stories weaving the tapestry of human connection, no exploring the extraordinary aspects of life, secrets of life, no space exploration, no witnessing the captivating beauty of a sunset, no sharing heartfelt laughter that defines our shared human experience, no savoring the simple joy of blooming flowers, no relishing in the exceptional taste of crafted cuisine, no connecting through the electric touch of human affection, no discovering and pursuing passions that make each individual exceptional, no triumphing over fears and feeling the adrenaline rush, no living the vibrant and exceptional canvas of human life!

​@@CroElectroStilenoone cares

@@user-ft5kh5um1r No people that are not clinically depressed and are not internet addicts with no life do care, because they enjoy life.

@@CroElectroStile so you are depressed cause you have no life spending time on the internet lol

​@@CroElectroStileso you are depressed cause you have no life spending time on the internet lol

You can thank China and India for that

@@5starlifestyle555yes because we dint had civil wars or any kind of major diseases

@@5starlifestyle555add up the populations of India and China, and subtract that from 8 billion. It isn't just those countries

@@5starlifestyle555 China has a one child per family for decades. If they hadn’t the world’s population would be even larger.

Peoples got to wise up and stop being such more-ons

And there you have it.

And that's why, eventually, workers and customers will do the same - not having kids increases profits.

I really think this is the core of the problem...we are in an end game where ever more profits go to ever less persons like in a play of Monopoly we used to play...

The funny thing is that if you work you can't afford children. When instead if you don't work you can have as many as you want.

$800,000 for a middle class house in Los Aneles.

@@dvdsblthose that don’t work and have kids, just don’t care about them and/or know they will get bumped up the councils housing list the more kids they have

@@dvdsbl I suppose so, but you'd live a hard life

Well, if there is a shortage of new families, the price of housing should decrease as there will be fewer buyers. If it's important, government(s) can set up trailer parks so that young families can build equity and still have location flexibility. If there are any charges associated with healthcare, they should be dropped for pregnant woman and children; likewise, children should not pay to ride public transport.

No one asked to be born😢

I can see Anti Natalism is popular here

Anti-natalism all the way

It’s a tragedy and a comedy simultaneously.

we can hope...which should mean less demands on industry for supplying consumers ergo better environment. i mean holy crap, just look at any 5 "super foods" to see the awful conditions those workers are under and how little they get paid....acai berries would be better off unknown to most the world, with less people, less of these people would have to work such awful jobs.

Yes but it takes many decades to get there. By that time, us 8 or 9 or 10 billion might have already completely destroyed the environment.

It will take a very long time unless we cut all the medical supports to elderly.

Right. It's good news, although it won't impact us right away. The less people, the more resources, jobs, and opportunities.

@@jeansherwood2428 Thank you for your consent. ❤

Why are you still here then??

@@TheAArmstrong To be a thorn in the side of humanity 😁

@@SamuelBlack84 nice 😎

Lol. I like being the fifth column too

GOD has chose you to raise your status after this if you do good

None of the things you listed raise birth rates.

Spot on

Who will inherit your money 💰when you die. So it's nice to have a child and pass on your legacy and inheritance ❤

@@vinucini4341one could always will it to charity or a school

​@@vinucini4341he just said he doesn't have any money you boomer

@@vinucini4341 these old people, man... mate, stop being a knucklehead.

By the time you can afford kids financially, you can't have kids biologically.

Precisely.

The births are declining in well off countries with strong economies. The poor countries where living conditions, healthcare etc are nowhere near the levels of the developed countries have no birth rate problems. That would indicate that the developed countries are too self centred to consider anything that would change their comforts like having a baby.

@@ubaldobezoari8652 I want to agree with you ubaldo, but there is a bit more. It also implies you need more to live in a developed country. Housing in some developed countries consumes 50% of income. Then people need transport to get to work. And most developed countries do not have the grandparents living at home providing free child care. Developed countries have modernized themselves out of having kids. So undeveloped countries will export their people to developed countries to make up the shortfall. This will be interesting to watch. I hope the world stays peaceful.

@@john_doe_not_found Perhaps. But in poor countries, having another mouth to feed is a giant impact. In the developed countries, having a baby means cancelling the Peloton subscription, some nail appointments, some facial treatments, keeping your car for a couple more years, and not going to Marbella, but Málaga for a couple of weeks.

well, that is what is happening. Highly educated developed nations have low birth rate, where that so called "sh*thole" countries have the opposite trend.

@@ProgressiveGoldbug Brooo.. take it easy XD ... you sound like if pepe the frog was a Nazi scientist! "Undesirables" LMFAO!

I remember the movie. However it always occurred to me that people who consider themselves intelligent- are they? Also there is no guarantee that intelligent people offspring will be intelligent. Or if you consider the high birth rate in Africa is a result of poverty and not intelligence.

Who stupid now????

@@user-nz5dh6qq5x uncle roger maybe too harsh on hooman beings hayiaaahh!

That's one way to put it I suppose

Exactly!! There is already enough orphans or children with crappy parents who neglect them or abuse them. Why bring more suffering into this wreched insane planet.

Yet the birthrates are the highest the worst places to live, such as Chad & Somalia.

If that's you attitude then it's a good thing you don't want to ave kids.

I said any thinking person @@GilmerJohn 🤣🤣🤣

Especially africa india

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its a bigger issue than you think. as the birth rate declines, the median age increases. an older population means less people that are at a working age, and more people requiring healthcare. and less working people means retirement age could increase, which is already happening in some countries. an older population also causes the society to think less long term. only voting for short term policies and not caring about the new generations

Italys and South Koreans countries actually might disappear.

Your comment shows the ignorance of the average midwit

@@lewis0705so capitalism will collapse - which I don’t even know why we’re fighting for it so much because it’s screwed most of us. But humanity is not going to go extinct

Even if we don’t go extinct certain nationalities and the “west” will be replaced by Africans and latin Americans. On a economic level fewer birth rates means fewer workers that means fewer money in the economy and results in deflation and in turn high unemployment and also probably means the elderly will be left to die alone (already happening) ect

Most women do want kids, they just don't for various reasons, affordability, not meeting the right man etc

​@@jayc342009 I beg to differ. Except for a few exceptional Scandinavian countries with more education and equal opportunities, women tend to have fewer kids. My conclusion is that women don't care as much about kids as society wants them to.

Don't focus on the bad, there's never been a better time in history to have kids! Child mortality is record low and life expectancy is record high! There's also lots to love about the world!

Unfortunately love doesn't pay the bills, and as much as you love your kids they can still end up homeless or starving

I’m the same way!! I never, ever want children and I hope I eventually find a wife who feels the same way. And whoever thinks it’s selfish to not have kids clearly doesn’t get that it’s not their business to tell us to be parents when we simply don’t want to!

​@sirclassicalhou3650 there's quite a few women who don't want children. Nearly 60 and never wanted a child. Never regretted the choice

More for everyone else, too.

But less too ! Without kids, no economic development + growth long-term? So less money + workers to pay for the service's . All couples should have 3-4 kids . Not about charts + computers. Without workers, no growth + service's. Leads to less for everyone.

Humanity lives in a golden age? Because of technology + medical healthcare, manufacturing we can build sea cities + alot resources in the solar system. Idea of that people should have less in a time when we need to build more is pointless. By the year 2040s, problems will be seen in every countrie on earth. Kids make economic growth + development happen, not old people.

@@FredHousehold to build more...what? Why? For whom?

= less money for healthcare

I’ve spoken to people who feel the same way as you. It’s so sad that people who would love to have children don’t have them because they can’t afford to provide for them. Even if the economy was better, things like climate change, natural disasters and man-made disasters make the future look very uncertain and influence people’s decision not to have children. The good news is that our Creator is about to drastically change the situation on earth. He has a government in heaven, God’s Kingdom, which Jesus preached about when he was on earth. (Luke 4:43) The Kingdom is going to completely remove not only all human governments but also all the selfish, greedy people who make others suffer. (Daniel 2:44; Proverbs 2:21, 22) The Kingdom will lovingly care for all its subjects. (Isaiah 65:21, 22) They will experience true peace and security for the first time. (Micah 4:4) Every day will be filled with joy and laughter. (Revelation 21:4) These wonderful changes are imminent!

Or when you see what a dump the world has become with our freedoms and civil rights disappearing fast. Who would want to be born into such a dystopia?

Meanwhile Muslims laughing

The fiat economy of the west is not working anymore greedy USA with it's dominant currency eating all other currency like pound and euro 😂 Don't ask about the Japanese they are doomed Their GDP fall from 5 trillion $ to 4.2 trillion $ in 1 year due to currency fluctuations and their is no recovery

It's not. The economy isn't too bad

But a million more per year in England is fine..

Life on this planet is already a living hell

The point is the stinky brown people are having lots of kids but the actual GOOD people in this world aren't.

Or in this country either- the wealthiest most prosperous countries have low populations.

@@SamuelBlack84 lol cause you’re a failure

because it means less money for their 30 yachts and 80 houses 😢😢😢

because there will be so many old people requiring care with fewer working age people.. taxes will be even higher and retirement age longer for future generations.

@@Jonnyicey I get the Economic argument. But I'm wondering if our Economic system is based on population growth that's never supposed to end, I wonder when do we have to accept the consequences. Because, it looks like everything should be fine only if the graph is going up and up and up.

@@mugumyapaultheafricannomad9488 Ideally we would have a balance of 2.1 children per woman to keep it level but when in the past it was 4 now its 1.4 its like a timebomb. I hope AI and robotics will solve some of the issues but we could do with a new system especially if there's lots of people losing their jobs to AI like they predict.

​@@Jonnyiceyrobots are a long way off taking elderly people to the toilet and wiping their bum

Many come from broken families and it affects the mental health of a number of children.

There are clear problems and challenges brought about by population decline.

Well ur presupposing a healthy age demographic.

A declining population isn't the issue. An increasing dependency ratio is. No one would want to be forced to work at 70+ years old with back pain and arthritis when there's not enough young people to keep the country from collapsing.

@@Muhammad_Nuruddin There's plenty of pros and cons that come with an increasing or decreasing population. It's not as though all population decline will be spread evenly. For starters, I don't want to live in a muslim world but they have the highest fertility rate so this is what the future will inevitably look like. Liberal egalitarian feminists don't reproduce so they will lose the culture war.

That 27k figure doesn’t represent the average person either. It’s heavily skewed by the handful of people makes over £80k. Most younger people would be lucky to take home £24k after taxes.

Same

I just don't want kids

lol you're pathetic. You life is infinitely better than the previous generations

Or more tyranny disguised as a 'plandemic' .

​@SamuelBlack84 LOL same. Even if it was Paradise on Earth I still wouldn't want any.

me

Not me

Africans.

@@mifolyikittgyongyoson8052 And we know and understand the reasoning behind that need, don't we.

@@Dylanesquewhat is the reason?

Life was much harder in the pasr. People died like flies and they still started families.

​​​@@jojoball11in last century after war? No. You could afford a house and grow east businesses for average american salary or lower. Technology was worse but people still lived long. Boomer generation had the best money-to-lifespan ratio.

Seriously? Would you like to be born, instead, during the XVII century? XIV century? VI century?

@@Dihyyy This was only really true in the US. And for a minority. Outside this bubble, you would still have the same hardships as in the previous eras.

​@@jojoball11 only because birth control wasn't a thing. Thanks to modern science we can choose when to have kids or not