It found that more than one in four #people worldwide – over 2 billion people – now reside in countries where the #fertility rate is lower than 1.3 #children per #woman.

Christian Today.

Without #significant levels of #immigration, fertility at that level would eventually result in “rapidly shrinking #populations”.

Meanwhile, countries with fertility rates of 2.1 children per woman or lower are now home to over half the world’s #population.

Examining what he calls a “global fertility freefall”, Sobotka argues that no single factor can explain the trend.
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