See Gap minder: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$ui$chart$cursorMode=plus;;...
The trend of obesity and declining birth rates is common across all developed economies. As a possibility, the accumulation of non-degradable hormone disruptors may have a cumulative effect causing the problem to grow as the decades go on.
The poor are vastly more likely to live in areas of higher industrial runoff, to use older materials/homes/appliances, have poorer water quality, and have fewer resources to counteract negative effects in the environment.
You'd have to be very silly to say that the life of someone in the lowest rung of the working ladder nowadays(e.g. a McDonalds worker) is not better than the life of a peasant in feudalistic times.
When people talk about quality of life going up and down, they mean compared to last 20 years or something like that.
I often wonder how to square such observations with the fact that life expectancy and quality of life are, in general, increasing.
It’s a noisy metric, but all in all it feels like the totality of human development is (for now anyway) increasing human welfare.
Caveat global warming etc.