US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as US births dipped in 2023

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[–]Cancelthis[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A reasonable correlation

Homelessness in , for instance,California, or New York -- or Oregon, or Washington state, in the last 50 years, versus number of newborns per fertile mothers.

Clearly, women and men are making specific decisions that children born will be under terrible risk f homelessness and poverty.

The basic question to ask - what is the mortgage cost for a standard house in a standard urban neighborhood relative to mean wages ?

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've read the projections are that world population will peak in 2050 at about 10-11 billion people.

Also the maximum growth rate of the world's population occurred in 1965, amazingly. The rate of exponential growth has been slowing ever since. We're probably on an S curve that will flatten out toward the end of our lives, and we'll see a relatively stable world population for the first time in world history potentially. That will cause huge changes in world culture.