{"id":215528,"date":"2024-03-21T03:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/why-falling-birth-rates-will-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overpopulation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:15","slug":"why-falling-birth-rates-will-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overpopulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/why-falling-birth-rates-will-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overpopulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why falling birth rates will be a bigger problem than overpopulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20164007\/SEI_196754144.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2423426 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"New Scientist Default Image\" width=\"1351\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"ER Productions Limited\/Getty Images\" data-caption=\"The cost of housing and fertility treatments may deter people in high-income countries from having children\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The cost of housing and fertility treatments may deter people in high-income countries from having children<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">ER Productions Limited\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Think of global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/population\/\">population<\/a> problems and you might think of the growing number of people in the world \u2013 currently about 8 billion \u2013 and our collective toll on the planet. But due to people having fewer children as countries become more prosperous, the real demographic problem may turn out to be falling populations.<\/p>\n<p>Projecting from current trends, demographers have now predicted that, within about 25 years, three-quarters of countries will have birth rates that are too\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2423408-why-falling-birth-rates-will-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overpopulation\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The cost of housing and fertility treatments may deter people in high-income countries from having children ER Productions Limited\/Getty Images Think of global population<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335455,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215528\/revisions\/335455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}