
Worldwide Population Hits ‘Tipping Point’ Earlier Than Expected

The world's population is aging much faster than originally estimated.

The world's population is aging much faster than originally estimated.

Slowly, but surely, countries are starting to admit what they have known for a long time: that immigration has and will be used in the future to attempt to avoid the demographic catastrophe wrought by the collapse of birth rates. In this endeavor, however, only the wealthy countries will succeed, resulting in dystopia elsewhere.

Canada's death spiral.

"Civilizational erasure", "a God-sized hole", and "demographic self-immolation." Weigel is right on target.

Although it's beginning to garner a lot of media attention, many people seem to be lithely unaware that global total fertility rates - the average number of children that a woman has over her life - is plummeting.

Since the 1980s, marriage rates have declined for both conservatives and liberals. But the declines have been greater among liberals, for both men and women.

After decades of imposing a "one-child" policy, sometimes using brutal methods, this is not a little bit ironic.