���The Population Is No Longer Making Enough Babies to Maintain Itself���

Global birth rates are falling.

Consider this:

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no longer making enough babies to maintain itself.

And this same steep decline is happening around the world, even in countries where demographers were not expecting to see such a decline so quickly. Apparently, by just 2050 it���s expected that ���more than thr...