Most 1st world countries are going extinct. Ideally you want a ratio of about 2.2
children per couple to maintain the current population. The .2 children is to offset the ones who are never able to reproduce due to death, injury, medical problems, etc. Any less than that and you experience a population decline. Very few 1st world countries are hitting that number. Most of the worlds population growth is coming from 3rd world countries and impoverished subcultures in wealthy nations.
In essence educated productive people that contribute to GDP are going the way of the dodo bird.
Kind of scary to think about. Almost makes you not want to have kids in order to spare them that future.............
Oh yea I had a point to that. As we are having fewer children and living longer than ever the increased societal costs of caring for our aging population is going to become harder and harder to sustain. Giving people the right to die seems a rather efficient method of population control.
