Declining Birth Rates Worldwide, Everything Is Going To Change
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Summary
Birth rates in the United States have been falling rapidly since the Great Recession, and are falling even faster than they have been in recent decades. In Africa, fertility rates are also falling fast, and some countries are having fewer than 1,000 births per woman per year. Is this a good or bad thing?
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We're about to be living on a world that is going to have, if current trends continue,
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a lot less urban sprawl and endless developments and mega cities in them and stuff like that.
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I personally, at the end of the day, think this is a good thing.
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We've taken this step into this direction first here as Westerners, as white people generally.
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This is a story that talks about this, the mystery of the declining U.S. birth rates.
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Now, of course, people will tie in other things here.
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Yes, it's the vax, it's the health issues, it's people want to have the propagandize into having less kids.
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They can't have kids. There's all these reasons, that kind of thing.
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And I think they're all valid. I think it all makes sense, right?
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But there's an overall trend that have been ongoing for decades in many of our countries, right?
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Which essentially, as we can figure it out so far, modernization.
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We've gone first, and it's dropping the most among white people.
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But some of the other groups, like take Mexicans or even some South Americans,
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or as we'll look in a moment, some African countries,
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they're declining faster than white people were.
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Up until the Great Recession, the number of babies born per woman in the United States
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had been quite stable for the previous three decades.
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The birth rate fluctuated within a relatively narrow range,
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and with births recovering when their economic growth was stronger.
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However, the U.S. birth rate has fallen precipitously since 2007,
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the Great Recession, with no signs of reversing.
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This decline cannot be explained by demographic, economic, or policy changes.
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It is reflective of lower childbearing rates across successive cohorts.
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Fertility in Europe, which countries have the highest and lowest numbers,
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Fertility rate in the EU increased by 8% over the last two decades,
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but the number of children being born has started to gradually fall.
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More than 4 million babies have been born in the European Union every year
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in the last three decades, but these numbers are showing a downward trend.
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And then they go through which countries have the lowest and highest,
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And then here's a graph with the stats of it, too.
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Declining birth rates is happening all over the place, folks.
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But they're saying, Africa is so youthful, right?
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We're going to just import sub-Saharan Africans and we'll be golden.
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whatever the circumstances, will be coming to Europe.
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As economic migrants or as refugees, they will be coming.
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And that is a good thing, because we will be senile.
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We will need their youthful energy to do stuff.
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That's just what the economic statistics tell you.
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Demands, this commie is going to tell you what the economic data demands.
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Europe and Africa are going to have a very close 21st century.
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He, in 2015, Jamie, one, and partners helped persuade world leaders
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to agree to the global goals for sustainable developments.
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Well, it's declining faster than expected in Africa, too,
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The world's peak population may be smaller than expected,
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New evidence suggests Africa's birth rates are falling fast.
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We're going to import the third world, and things are going to be great.
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It's going to do wonders for the economy, folks.
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Well, they'll try, and they will certainly keep doing this for a little bit,
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but long term, that's not going to work either.
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At conferences and in cabinet meetings across the continent,
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politicians and policymakers fret about how to educate, employ, house,
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and feed a population that the UN expects to grow at a breakneck speed
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from around 1.2 billion people now to 3.4 billion people by 2100,
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This is literally part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Lift them out of poverty, bringing them to the West.
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Across the rich world, environmentalists fear the impact.
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Fear the impact on the climate and planet of an extra 2 billion people.
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Yes, if you have noticed a wealth of new data that suggests
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that Africa's birth rate is falling far more quickly than expected.
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Some countries here, like Uganda, have almost 7 children per woman
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Now, in 2021, according to the latest available statistics,
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Well, furthermore, I mean, even if the West falls,
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like if the West collapses, can't take care of itself economically,
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no more aid, what do you think is going to happen in these countries?
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It would be the biggest starvation, you know, scenario,
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that you've ever seen in some of these countries.
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This is, of course, why they have to learn to prop up themselves
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to be dumped, you know, on their heads every other month.
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Well, you certainly don't prop up their number,
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So Club of Rome had been a pernicious, insidious think tank
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that published this book, The Limits to Growth,
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Now it says the population bump may never go off.
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which is 40 years earlier than the UN's projections.
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That means we're not going to be able to upkeep things