The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them
Governments are spending billions to force women into childbearing while ignoring what actually works and what people actually want: affordable childcare and reproductive freedom.
#population
#FallingBirthrates
If you can keep your head ….
#Loneliness
#AgeingPopulation
#Demographics
#FallingBirthRates
#MemeForToday
The Paradox of Choice ….
Credit @sketchplanations.bsky.social
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#Smartphones
#MemeForToday
Why China’s growth miracle is failing…..
#China 🇨🇳
#DemographicDividend
#Demographics
#FallingBirthRates
#Money&Macro
🎯It’s mostly now down to people coupling later in life (or never).
Smartphones have not helped ❗️
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‘Social connections are what makes life worth living’ 🎯
…. and there are still some people who can’t work out why birth rates are falling worldwide 🤨.
#FallingBirthRates
#Smartphones
#Internet
#LadybirdBooksKnow 🐞
We do actually need more children (for many reasons), though economic measures don’t fix the problem (many countries have tried and failed) because the main reason for #FallingBirthRates is that people are now coupling later in life or never (mostly not because of financial reasons).
Latest figures show that net migration is now (or soon will be) around zero, and our population is expected to start declining in the next year or two.
We need more people.
#Demography
#FallingBirthRates
The price of gold is rising as birth rates worldwide are falling.
This isn’t a coincidence.
#Gold
#FallingBirthRates
#BoiledFrog
#Demography
#MemeForToday
It’s about time/way past the time that most of our media stopped obsessing about ‘both-siding’ just about every topic, particularly migration.
Facts matter❗️
There are exceptions like this from @tomcalver.bsky.social …..
#Migration
#FallingBirthRates
#Demography
#Balance
#Facts
If you can keep your head ….
This isn’t rocket science, this is maths, demography and biology.
#Demography
#SizeMatters
#AgeDistribution
#FallingBirthRates
#MemeForToday
We’re going to have to do something (taxing the wealthy properly would be much better) …. if we carry on ignoring the problem , they’ll have to increase the retirement age again ❗️
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Tbf … that makes sense now that our birth rate is falling .
Demographer Paul Moreland made the same suggestion a few years ago.
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The @rosatkins.bsky.social report on #FallingBirthRates here 🇬🇧 is from March 2024 🤨 … our government is going to leave things too late again (just like with Covid) and then panic when it’s too late.
🎯 Does anyone at Reform HQ (or in the Labour Party for that matter) understand the importance of demography and the demographic shift that’s now happening ❓
#DemographicDividend
#SizeMatters
#FallingBirthRates
#AgeDistribution
#MemeForToday
The first question that survey should have asked is ….
Are you in a long term stable relationship ❓
Also 18-40 is too big an age range❗️
I’m old enough to remember a time when teenage weddings were quiet common and most of us were married by our mid 20s.
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🎯 Birth rates are collapsing because young people are coupling later in life (or never).
This is not rocket science ❗️
#Smartphones
#Internet
#FallingBirthRates
