Over the past 70 years, the global birth rate has dropped from 5.0 children per woman to 2.2 today which is bordering the 2.1 is considered the replacement level for a continuing population so what's to blame?
Multiple studies are finding that women who live in more heavily polluted areas are conceiving significantly less often, a survey of 18,000 couples found that those who lived in dense urban areas were 20% less capable of conceiving.
In America, a study of 632 women by the Massachusetts General Hospital Fertility Clinic found that women in environments with high concentrations of fine particulate matter in the air, lost their eggs and were rendered infertile earlier in life. For those who tried IVF instead, a study published in the periodical Human Reproduction in 2024 found that in neighborhoods with high levels of pollution, IVF conception failed 38% more often.
Men are also deeply susceptible to potency damage from pollution with low sperm count leading to a decrease in fertility and 7% of men are infertile all their lives.
Pollution seems to be the enemy to a continuing population then but in America, the most expensive place i the World to give birth, i would put it down to each birth costing an eye-watering uninsured patient will be charged $18,865 and $2,655 if insured for a straightforward birth.
If a caesarean section is required then the price goes up to $25,820 for the uninsured and $3,200 with insurance so we can see can see why a birth the country only has a birth rate of 1.6 and is declining
although with 8.2 billion humans clogging up a Planet which experts have said can only sustain 7.7 billion people, maybe not having so many of us isn't a bad thing.
Friday, 25 October 2024
Dropping Birth Rates
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this is tripe - correlation is not causation - idiot scientists and journalists
1.) as women become more educated they have fewer kids - global phenom
2.) as people move from impoverished farms (where they need kids for free labor) to cities (where kids are an necessary burden and expense) they have fewer kids
3.) in the US as women have begun taking over the workforce (60% of college grads are now women) and are increasingly the primary financial provider, they are less interested in having kids... my daughters and their friends are perfect examples. there are two categories of women in the US between ages 25 and 40 in the US: 1.) got a menial job, got pregnant before age 22, probably got divorced, and have low income life; 2.) set out to have a "nice life" and are now unmarried and childless but live a middle to upper-income lifestyle
in America, the uninsured women under 35 are far more likely to have babies and they started having them before they were 25. the women with insurance have high paying jobs (my daughters as an example) but are focused on career more than being a wife and mother.
the global phenom that has led to the drop from 5 to 2 that you mention is mostly driven by China and India as they move from abject-poverty stricken farms and rural areas to service and manufacturing jobs in cities
As i concluded, not a bad thing
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