Japanese Company’s Pivot to Adult Diapers Underscores Crashing Fertility Rates Worldwide
Global fertility has been falling for decades, though the problem is often most acute in industrialized nations with high standards of living.
Global fertility has been falling for decades, though the problem is often most acute in industrialized nations with high standards of living.
A study out of the University of Houston’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality found this month that the state’s fertility rate rose markedly after the heartbeat ban went into effect.
Overpopulation has been used as an excuse for everything from birth control to abortion to China’s ‘one-child’ policy.
The overall number of births in the United States fell 4% last year to just more than 3.6 million births in 2020 – the sixth consecutive year that figure has decreased and the lowest number of births since 1979.
The United States is below population replacement levels due to a variety of cultural, economic, and racial factors, including the birth collapse among Latinos.
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