Honey, we shrunk the kids: population fall

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The Economist

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Falling fertility makes a global decline in population inevitable. That will change the shape and make up of societies. But it may not make us poorer. Are large language models really woke? And reading is on the wane – and why that matters.

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