4/29/24: Fertility hits rock bottom, Barr admits Trump assassination plans
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's start today with population and fertility. I hope everybody had a good weekend. We woke up this morning to news that the US |
| 0:16.6 | fertility rate dropped to its lowest in a century with a lower number of births in 2023. |
| 0:26.2 | The CNN reports the fertility rate in the US has been trending down for decades. |
| 0:31.2 | A new report shows another drop in births in 2023 brings the rate down to its lowest in more than a century. |
| 0:37.2 | There were 3.6 million babies born in 2023 or 54.4 live births for every thousand females age 15 to 44 according to |
| 0:48.6 | provisional data. One little note is that there are increasingly births to women older than 44 |
| 1:00.1 | But that should not affect this rate because it is still encompassing the totality of babies born. I believe I'm understanding that correctly, but it would be a small difference in terms of this rate. |
| 1:16.8 | Now there have been so many politicizations of the birth rate and fertility over recent years. Elon Musk has famously |
| 1:21.5 | said we need to have more babies population decline is coming and so on and so forth |
| 1:27.6 | On the other hand there have been those who for environmental reasons have insisted we already have too many people |
| 1:33.1 | over population we need to stop having babies anti-natalists let's cut the entire |
| 1:38.4 | thing there's too many people now the reality is that there are lots of people who are very, very wrong or at least |
| 1:46.8 | missing half or more of the picture when it comes to this issue. |
| 1:50.9 | The first critical part to understand about declining fertility |
| 1:54.1 | rates is that worldwide when you see economic development and wealth increase you |
| 2:01.5 | see a decline in the fertility rates as countries develop the |
| 2:05.8 | economic incentives for having more kids go down. |
| 2:09.2 | Kids are less useful in an information society than they were in an agricultural society |
| 2:18.1 | where the more kids you have they grow up and they work on the farm, for example. Higher standard of living and higher income |
| 2:25.9 | leads to lower fertility rates. And this is not just in the United States, it's not just |
| 2:30.8 | in the US and Europe. For people who love to say, oh soon Africa, this, that or the other thing. |
| 2:37.0 | When you look at the countries in Africa that are developing more quickly and where standard of living is rising and infant mortality is |
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