Good visualizations at the link.

Short-term solutions like immigration can help until populations are shrinking in every country. Longer-term solutions—reducing the cost of raising a child, and providing better support for families with children—are common strategies deployed to ward off demographic disaster.

Experts remain stuck on socialized child raising as the solution to population growth even though these strategies have failed in every country that has already tried them.

The current crop of humanity has never had to contend with shrinking populations on a global scale. How will this reshape human livelihoods, priorities and expectations from life? We might soon find out.

Source: Visualizing the World’s Plummeting Fertility Rate

They also note that immigration is only a short term solution for some countries – because 75% of the world’s population now lives in countries with low fertility rates. There are not going to be enough immigrants to go around!

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