Birth rates are falling
Statistics show a more optimistic picture than what overpopulation alarmists have presented. Fertility rates have been and are declining around the world, and as education and prosperity increase, families engage in better future planning.
According to the data, the world population has stabilized, with birth rates falling significantly in previously overpopulated regions. The picture of ever more babies being born into overcrowded streets simply doesn’t hold. In fact, global fertility has halved over the past five decades. Several factors drive this trend: the empowerment of women, increasing access to education and contraception, declining child mortality (which means couples would not procreate excessively to ensure that some children survive), and the rising cost of bringing up children.
Source: Our World in Data
Overpopulation: Resource Depletion and Human Innovation
Overpopulation: Resource Depletion and Human Innovation
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