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How to Fix America’s Population Decline

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

America’s birth rate has fallen to 1.58, the lowest in history. In this episode of the new “How to Fix” series, Patrick Bet-David breaks down what caused the decline and proposes bold incentives to spark a new baby boom. Agree or disagree, this is a debate every American should be having.

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0:00.0

Today we're going to talk about the 1.58 problem that is the biggest crisis taking place in America. This is the lowest birth rate we've ever had in the history of America. And by the way, last year, only 3.6 million babies were born in America. Do you know three times in America, we went on a run that we had 4 million kids every year. Once was five years, once was seven years, and once was 11 years. We're

0:22.4

going to talk about what that era was. Then we're going to talk about why we stopped making babies.

0:26.6

Then I'm going to give you some radical, radical solutions that if you like it, I want you to share

0:32.3

it because I'm going to give you a goal at the end, because we want the White House to have this

0:36.7

as a goal to announce from the top

0:38.8

at the White House for us to decide to chase this one magical number that I think we can pull up.

0:45.3

But I'm going to need your help to get this message out there.

0:47.4

So if you evaluate out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.

1:06.0

Okay, so let me tell why I'm excited about this, because we are launching to know how to fix serious, how to fix anything, how to fix the child birth rate, how to fix Disney,

1:10.3

how to fix whatever you want to talk about,

1:12.0

and you'll let us know what some of the topics are. We'll attack that. And by the way, stick around to the variant because some of you guys, the first five that Meneck me something, you're going to get something special with stick around to the variant. So let's get right into it. 1.58. By the way, you know what the highest number is for birth rate, boom.

1:27.8

Our record is 3.77 in

1:30.8

1957, but we will come back to this. So let's go look at some of the numbers here that we have.

1:37.1

Check this out. 1910, America's population was 92 million people. That year, we had 2.77 million newborn babies born. F.Y.

1:48.4

2025 was 3.6 million. 115 years later. It's almost the same number. Look at this.

1:56.0

Birds per 1,000 population, 30.1, the highest in the last 110 years. Then we go to 1920, 106 million.

2:04.6

2.95, 27.7. 1930. Population 123, we go to 2.6. 1940, 132.2.5. 1950, 151. Look at this. 3.632.

2:16.8

Do you know in 1950, we had more kids than we had in 2025? In 1950 with a population of 151,

2:28.9

they, the 151, beat America's 340 million today. Think about that, what that looks like.

2:35.3

That's like a smaller army going against the bigger one,

2:38.0

and the smaller army beats the bigger one in making babies.

2:41.4

Then we go, 1961, 79, 4.257 million, 72,03, 3.71 million, 80, 22, 3.6 million, 190, 248, 4.179 million.

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