Housing and fertility costs may deter people in high-income countries from having children
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When you think about the world’s population problem, you might think that the world’s population is growing, currently around 8 billion people, and the toll we are making on the planet. But the real population problem may turn out to be population decline, as fewer people are having children as countries become richer.
Extrapolating from current trends, demographers predict that three-quarters of countries will have very high birth rates within about 25 years.
Source: www.newscientist.com
