Low birthrates are the main driver of the nation’s rising median age, experts said.
“It’s simple arithmetic,” said Andrew A. Beveridge, president of Social Explorer, a demographic data firm. “Fewer kids are being born.”
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The trend is international, even affecting countries with much stronger social programs than the United States, such as Norway, Sweden and Finland, which heavily subsidize child care.
Source: The U.S. Population Is Older Than It Has Ever Been – DNyuz
Government benefit programs have had no to nearly no effects on changing the fertility rate. So of course, politicians and academics generally suggest we turn the U.S. into our fantasized view of Denmark.
