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#834 - Lyman Stone - Why Is Everyone Having Fewer Children?

2024/9/5
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Global birth rates are declining, raising concerns about the future. This decline is a complex issue with various contributing factors.
  • Birth rates have fallen from 2.1 in 2007 to 1.6 today.
  • Historically, women had more babies, but child and maternal mortality rates were significantly higher.
  • Improved living standards and reduced mortality rates are not the sole drivers of declining birth rates.

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Lyman Stone is a demographer, researcher, and a writer.

It wasn't long ago that everyone was worried about the population bomb and within a few short decades global birth rates are now declining. What's going on? What is driving such a rapid change in the number of children people are having and should we do anything about it?

Expect to learn the best explanations for why birth rates are declining, whether declining birthrates are downstream from declining marriage rates, what winning the lottery does to marriages for both men and women, Lyman's controversial perspective on the impact of sperm count and testosterone levels on fertility and much more….

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