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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by evolve2k on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:22PM (#23034192)
Birth rates where? Just the US? Or globally or just Western powerhouse counties?

Side note: I remember being shocked the first time I found out that baby boomers and ‘the aging population issue’ weren’t actually global issues and only affected the counties who took the spoils post WW2 (aka western powerhouse countries).

Lots of other counties have very different population ages mixes for example Ireland and Turkey.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by nostrademons on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:31PM (#23034343)
Developed countries, but it's spreading worldwide. Japan hit their baby bust in the 90s, and then Western Europe in the last 10 years, and now it applies to the U.S. as a whole. China and India have also seen remarkable drops since 1980.

The only continent that still has fertility rates above replacement is Africa:

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...

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