Western Population Is In Decline, America Gets Bad News
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🗓️ 10 January 2019
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Western Population Is In Decline, Americans Not Having Kids. Past forecasts were favorable for America but a new report from the CDC shows that America has fallen below replacement levels. Similar trends can be seen across Europe and other Western nations.
Millennials are not getting married or having kids with some people saying they are a stunted generation.
Population decline will have severe economic ramifications, without a young workforce paying taxes into pension and health systems the aging population will be without support.
Many countries have looked to immigration in order to off set the population decline but in the long run the issue is our culture. What made the West less likely to have children will absolutely impact people who migrate as well. Some countries, like Japan, have been unable to use migration to offset the decline in population.
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| 0:00.0 | According to a new government report over the past seven years, year over year, |
| 0:04.0 | US fertility has been in decline and as of today we are no longer at replacement levels. |
| 0:09.3 | What this means is in the next coming decades it is likely the US population will begin to shrink |
| 0:14.1 | and this is a threat to the economy. We've seen similar problems in Japan and many EU nations. |
| 0:19.6 | Without new members of the workforce paying taxes we can't fund our welfare programs and retirement systems. |
| 0:25.5 | Thus, many countries are scrambling to find solutions, one solution bringing in migrants to help |
| 0:30.9 | offset this decline in population and it's worked in some cases but it's not without its problems. |
| 0:35.6 | Another issue is just why aren't people having kids anymore and this is something many people are |
| 0:41.0 | trying to figure out and there's no one reason it's actually multifaceted and unfortunately |
| 0:45.9 | it's actually a paradox it may have to do with wealth. So today let's take a look at what's going |
| 0:50.5 | out this latest report. We'll take a look at the ramifications of population decline and some of |
| 0:54.6 | the solutions some countries have tried to implement to save themselves. But before we get started |
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| 1:08.0 | where you can buy clothing I've designed myself. From NBC News Americans aren't making enough babies |
| 1:12.6 | to replace ourselves. Government researchers did not offer an explanation but experts cited factors |
| 1:18.0 | including changing economics and fewer teen pregnancies. They say for the population to reproduce |
| 1:22.8 | itself at current numbers the total fertility rate needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women |
| 1:28.3 | of childbearing age over their lifetime. Researchers for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 1:32.8 | said in their report released early Thursday. But the latest data show a current rate of just 1,765.5 |
| 1:39.6 | per 1,000 or 16% below the number needed to keep the population stable without additions |
| 1:45.8 | through immigration. The total fertility rate has been declining steadily for seven years but the |
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