22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
I added a big update to this post so adding this link as a new, updated quick look: 22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
Public health: They did everything right but still got Covid
Why mitigations and lockdowns were mostly useless: For more than two years I basically lived like a hermit to avoid just this scenario. Sure, after getting vaxxed and boosted I…
Media notices disease model projections mostly worthless
Predictions about the pandemic rarely age well. In the United States, the pandemic appeared to be winding down in May 2021 amid a vigorous vaccination campaign, only to get wound…
33-Demographics: Shortage of health care workers
This is all over the country: Similar scenarios are playing out all over Oregon. A lack of qualified healthcare workers, which began before the pandemic and worsened after COVID-19 hit,…
32-Demographics: India schools see decline in enrollment
Schools in India also seeing a decline in enrollment due to decline in births: According to the study, enrollment is a function of population, therefore a reduction in the number…
31-Demographics: Media catching on to the population decline
The Demographic Outlook: 2022 to 2052 | Congressional Budget Office (cbo.gov) Previous analyses of Census Bureau estimates make plain that the nation’s population growth has ground down to a historic…
30-Demographics: Where the next babies will be born in 2022
This graphic paints a picture of the world’s population, showing which countries are most likely to welcome the next 1,000 babies. Source: The World’s Population: Where Will The Next 1,000…
29-Demographics: “slowing population growth, not pandemic, at the root of U.S. worker shortage “
And just like that, UC Riverside researchers are saying the same thing as this blog: Supply chain struggles have been widely blamed for the inability to meet consumer and business…
28-Demographics: Is the decline good or bad?
Is the decline in the global fertility rate a good thing or a bad thing? Perhaps it is neither – it is what it is. The Plus Side From one…
27-Demographics: Australia seeks more immigrants to solve worker shortage
They blame the pandemic but ignore the other problem – Australia’s fertility rate is less than 1.8, meaning negative population growth from births. Australia shut its borders for more than…