The latest forecasts predict a sharp decline in the population. One reason is that too few children are being born. Immigration, even in greater numbers, will not offset the trend.
Its weird how birth rates started to fall dramatically in 1971, and continued to fall since then, as home price to median income somehow rose dramatically. Did something happen in 1971 that would oppress young people, some kind of gatekeeping mechanism that made them worse off financially?
That’s when birth control pill were firstly broadly adopted in Western societies. In Ireland, for example, where that was illegal, the baby boom phase lasted longer.
Its weird how birth rates started to fall dramatically in 1971, and continued to fall since then, as home price to median income somehow rose dramatically. Did something happen in 1971 that would oppress young people, some kind of gatekeeping mechanism that made them worse off financially?
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/deu/germany/birth-rate
That’s when birth control pill were firstly broadly adopted in Western societies. In Ireland, for example, where that was illegal, the baby boom phase lasted longer.