THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: Robin Hanson: Five Fertility Fails.

Related: The baby bust is worsening. “Birth rates have been slowly falling for a while. But last year’s drops were notable both for their severity and because they’re now happening sharply in countries that had largely avoided them, such as France. The United States is a striking exception. American births fell only about 2 percent in 2023, to roughly 3.6 million. The baby bust is most severe in East Asia, and China in particular.”