A curated collection of articles, insights, and thought-provoking excerpts exploring fertility, demographics, family, public policy, and the forces shaping societies and their future.
Income levels, job security and economic uncertainty, influence family size, decisions
Rising education, especially among women, is strongly linked to lower fertility rates.
Taxes, benefits, housing and family policies can either support or suppress fertility.
Urbanization provides health, family planning and lifestyle options, contributing to lower fertility rates.
No foreign policy actions can save a civilization if its population keeps dropping. Population collapse of Romans over time is what caused Rome to fall. The Romans worried about this, but failed to stop it.
For decades, the dominant culture said that having a child was likely to be incompatible with many other choices; that having a child compromised your freedom, your career, your dreams and in some cases even your beauty; a choice that basically took something away from you or risked taking away much more than it would give you.
Prime Minister of Italy
The great defining event of the twenty-first century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb but of a population bust—a relentless, generation-after-generation culling of the human herd. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
Authors & Analysts
How Mankind Chose Extinction will be an interesting read if anyone is left to write it. … A sub-2.1 global TFR is a more powerful historical force than even the fecund Mr. Musk. It is coming. And there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Historian
The ultimate measure of human success is not production but reproduction. Economic productivity and profit are means to reproductive ends, not ends in themselves.
Sociologist and Anthropologist
