Demographics 42: Median age to give birth is now 30
My Mom was 41 years old when I was born at tail end of “baby boom”L While fertility rates dropped from 1990 to 2019 overall, the decline was regarded as…
Possibly: “Are you saving more than you need for retirement?”
As previously reported, most professionals and college educated are over saving for their retirement years, and in so doing, are forgoing other beneficial life experiences earlier that they may not…
Demographics 41: California forecasts continued public school enrollment declines
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Department of Finance projected a 7% decrease in California public school enrollment between 2018 and 2028. A report by the Public Policy Institute…
Demographics 40: “Bermuda Is Facing A Demographic Crisis” –
“Bermuda is facing a demographic crisis” and “the prospect of Bermuda’s declining and aging population in the coming years raises critical concerns about GDP, employment, health care, retirement benefits, and…
Demographics 39: “Lower Labor Force Participation Rates and Slower Population Growth Pose Challenges”-Federal Reserve
As the nation recovers from the pandemic-induced recession, finding workers to fill job openings has been a headwind for many regions and industries. Although many researchers have pointed to the…
Demographics 38: “Most of Alaska faces population decline as birth rates plummet”
With fewer Alaskans choosing to have children the state’s population is expected to begin a decades-long decline in most areas. Source: Most of Alaska faces population decline as birth rates…
Demographics 37: What does “Aging population” actually mean?
I have seen this phrase “aging population” appear in the media for years, probably decades. It’s confusing as it applies that we are somehow making more old people. What they…
36-Demographics: Differences of Young versus Old – and how to pay for it?
The young tend to spend more on products. Think of buying a home and then needing to (eventually) add furnishings, kitchen utensils, laundry machines and so on. The old tend…
35-Demographics: Huge social benefits programs do not increase fertility rates
Nonsense – this issue is global and not just the U.S.: The most important reason for America’s deepening baby bust is that it has become much more difficult for millennials…
34-Demographics: Emerging Europe’s population may decline to early 1900s levels over coming century
Source: bne IntelliNews – Population decline to take Emerging Europe back to the early 20th century
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…