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Meanwhile, most of the population is stuck on the Population Bomb meme that was wrong the day it was published 55 years ago. That mindset is locked into today’s younger…
Germany’s fertility rate is 1.6: The labor shortage is magnifying the pressure. With workers in high demand and inflation jumping to 10.9% last month — the fastest rate since the…
Ibbitson, 67, said over the next several decades that demographics will be the key driver of the global economy as more baby boomers age and birth rates around the world…
In October 2022, we have an update from the CDC – the CDC is discontinuing publishing “case” disease models due to their (repeated) low reliability: Forecasts of New Cases Ensemble…
In the US, some young men report that legal changes to reproductive rights have catalysed them to opt for vasectomies. Source: Vasectomy: The US men embracing permanent birth control –…
Guess it is a mystery why this happening: Santa Clara Unified and school districts all over the Country are concerned about enrollment declines. At the Board of Trustees Meeting on…
Contrary to what some Americans seem to believe, the United States historically has been a polyglot nation containing a diverse array of languages. At the time of independence, non-English European…
Good grief By the 1920’s, nearly one-third of the American population consisted of immigrants and their families. The birthrate among this segment of the population suggested that the proportion of…
According to the World Bank, Ukraine’s 2020 birth rate was 1.22 children per 1,000 woman, one of the world’s lowest. By comparison, the global average rate was 2.2 and 1.4…
ASD Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt specifically cited the declining community birthrate as one of the factors. ASD CFO Jim Anderson defended the cuts saying that it would also help the district…