Choosing to be child-free in an ‘apocalyptic’ South Asia
Why are some South Asians choosing not to have children amid a population crisis?
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East better than West for pro-natalist engineering
This is the second installment of a two-part essay.
The economic way to reverse demograhic decline
This is the first installment of a two-part essay.
The economic way to reverse demographic decline
This is the first installment of a two-part essay.
China’s demographics aren’t a short-term problem
In discussions about China’s economy, the issue of demographics comes up quite a lot. In 2022, China’s population began to decrease (and coincidentally, India’s population surpassed China’s). The country’s fertility rate, which had already fallen below replacement levels decades earlier, fell again recently, to just 1.09 — one of the lowest rates in the world, and even lower than Japan.