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The New Neo
A blog about political change, among other things
Going out for a few hours, so my later post or posts today will probably come out in late afternoon or early evening.
Till then…
Americans aren’t having enough babies to replace the population, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The country’s total fertility rate is 16% below what’s required to keep the population stable.
US birth rates have been below “replacement level” for decades, fueling fears that the country is headed for a ” demographic time bomb.”
Since the 1970s, birth rates in the US have been below “replacement level,” or the rate at which new births keep the population steady.
of course the feminist says:
“I think it may stabilize once women who have been postponing pregnancy have the births they are planning to have,” Donna Strobino, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
There are now more people over the age of 65 than there are under the age of five – a dispersion that’s never occurred before, according to Deutsche Bank.
Wall Street is taking note of the broader “stagnation” theme associated with an aging population. For a second straight month, the theme dominated Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Fund Manager survey, which takes the pulse of how big-money managers view global markets and economies.
In the United States, the fertility rate has reached a record low of 1.76
Last year, the US Census Bureau wrote in a paper that women who have kids between the ages of 25 and 35 have more difficulty in getting fair pay than women who give birth outside of that range. American women are now having children older than ever.