A major study published in scientific journal The Lancet has found that the global population will start to fall within decades due to vastly reduced fertility rates and may never recover.
The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that by the year 2050, 155 of 204 countries are on course to have birth rates lower than required to sustain the population level.
It notes that as of 2021, the “total fertility rate” worldwide was 2.23, hovering only just above the 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain population growth.
That figure has fallen from 4.84 in 1950, with researchers predicting it will decrease to 1.83 in 2050 and go as low as 1.59 by 2100.
The study notes that by that time only 26 countries will have birth rates that outpace the number of people dying, with “most of the world transitioning into natural population decline”.
A fall in population would mark the first time in seven centuries such an occurrence has taken place.
The last time it happened was after the Black Death bubonic plague pandemic killed as many as 50 million people in the mid-1300s, reducing the global population from 400 million to 350 million.
Commenting on the study, it’s co-author Dr Natalia Bhattacharjee said declining fertility rates “will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power and will necessitate reorganising societies”.
Bhattacharjee, lead research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, also noted that a major consequence will be increased immigration from countries where there is still a “baby boom,” such as sub-Saharan Africa, in order to make up workforce shortages in nations with aging populations.
Professor Stein Emil Vollset, senior author from IHME, also noted that the world is “facing staggering social change through the 21st century” due to population decline.
The findings are exactly what the likes of Elon Musk have been warning of for years, describing population decline as a ‘civilisational threat’ and urging that humanity is literally going to disappear if something is not done to reverse the trend.
While Eco loons rage about ‘moral issues’ with having children, the potential causes of fertility decline, such as plastics and chemical shrinking penises and sperm counts, are relatively ignored.
The stark reality is that birth rates globally are collapsing and almost every country is on course to have shrinking populations by the end of the century.
In countries like South Korea and Japan, there are twice as many people are dying as there are being born. You don’t have to be a mathematic genius to do the calculations on what’s going to happen very soon.
These countries are already considering embracing mass migration, with South Korea’s Justice Minister recently declaring the country faces a “demographic catastrophe” and potential extinction otherwise.
Despite this horrifying reality, it is now commonplace in modern culture for young people to genuinely believe they need to abandon their human instincts to reproduce, all for the greater good:
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“Global Population Set To Fall For First Time In 700 Years” due to a plague of global Marxist lack of imagination, incompetence, pessimism and the resultant failed policies.
LOL! Imagine a world repopulated by machete-wielding low-IQ sub-Saharan Africans. Talk about starting over. Most of the indoctrinated commenting here have bought into the leftist narrative that comes from Marxists that call themselves “progressive” but are incapable of producing any technological progress whatsoever to save humanity. Chronic Marxist failures should not be dictating the future of humanity but the losers will certainly try.
“Imagine a world repopulated by machete-wielding low-IQ sub-Saharan Africans” [and/or equivalent] – exactly the world (essentially) that Globalizing Capitalism is bringing us, fool.
Marxism failed, except in one regard, its former domains in East Europe are (by far) the least Africanized and Islamized white nations left – actually a failure in Globalist-Saurosite terms, which all efforts are now being applied to ‘correct’.
A well educated gently declining population using less and less environmentally damaging products per person is the hallmark of an advanced modern society.
Capitalism cannot deal with this source of greater wealth for people and Earth.
Globalized capitalism is a fast road to Hell on Earth, guaranteed, and certainly the end of humanity as a going concern. It is like a slow-mo Mega-Nuke, its expanding detonation consuming and converting everything into a form of processed salami. Most just can’t see something so big clearly, even as they increasingly feel its squeeze before the slice and dice.
Bullcrap from a failed delusional Marxist.
Dead wrong on all counts, clown. Just take a look around, smell the napalm,
and realize, you ain’t seen nuthin yet!
Why are you here instead of the utopia of North Korea?
There is only one thing to say: What a fucking stupid bullshit!!
Anyone who thinks human beings are good for the planet is a f****** idiot. this is the best possible thing that could be happening. with a very small population, sure, human beings can maybe live in harmony with the natural world. At the moment we are absolutely destroying it. If you don’t see this you’re a fucking idiot.
Here is a solution for those who cheer population decline:
Leftists can stage their own Jonestown event and drink some tainted kool-aid.
English, please.
>The findings are exactly what the likes of Elon Musk have been warning of for years, describing population decline as a ‘civilisational threat’ and urging that humanity is literally going to disappear if something is not done to reverse the trend.
Elon Musk says lots of things, some of which are complete rubbish that seems to come from science-fiction movies, weird conspiracy theories, and other places where you wouldn’t expect to find much truth, if any.
Global population stabilising around the levels it is now or a bit higher isn’t a threat to civilisation. Even declining a little is no reason at all to worry. Newsflash: the world is round. It couldn’t support an ever-expanding population anyway, if only because there is only so much food we can cultivate. In any case, an increasing population would be a reason to worry, but since present levels of increase are modest, probably worrying about global population levels at all is a waste of time. Some countries may have issues with their population levels, but those are purely local concerns.
The threat to civilisation isn’t population, but energy shortages. We may have not a decline in people, but a decline in machines, because the machines are the ones facing being starved of fuel. Which is an entirely different issue. Returning to the Middle Ages would suck in a big way, even if population levels declined only modestly in the process.
There are way more looming threats to so-called ‘civilization’ thn you can count on all your fingers and toes. Present population levels are already way too high for the actual effective capacity to decently let alone ‘equally’ manage/provide for them under the obtaining system especially. Hence civilization-destabilising and increasingly toppling mass-movement of hungry hordes into the parts of the world that are at least semi-functional in the commonly accepted sense of ‘civilization’. Energy properly speaking is effectively infinite and not really the problem, though the energy-wasting and even destruction-accumulating system is. Compared to what’s emerging, the Middle Ages weren’t all bad. Musk says lots of things, some are even more or less correct, but far from enough on both counts together. Hardly surprising given his and his ilk’s self-limiting approach.
The chains of usury are crushing civilization
Brilliant! Yes, interest rates are too high! That’s the main problem! Lower interest rates and all will be well! SMH
The planet is arguably overpopulated for a decent standard of living for all, peace and stability, nture/resource preservation etc, so some natural decline from such unprecedented peaks ain’t so bad, in fact it’s necessary, we have well overshot the sensible mark, what is bad is trying to bring it about via various forms of genocide (including ‘good-job’ Gates vaccines), and generally making things worse, via eg mass-migration of still-exploding African and Islamic hordes into the West, core homeland Europe above all, which is trashing and will even more trash any chance of not only maintaining any sort of stable and decent world, but likely any sort of inhabitable world at all, as it is having severely sabotaging and cancelling effects on any serious counters to pretty much every problem and threat, including intra- and extraterrestrial (from the most chemically inert onwards). In fact, specific and otherwise unavailable effective solutions to many/most of those problems and threats will not be forthcoming until the chaos-stoking stops, and is even rolled back to a substantial degree, and such mega-morons as Soros who imagine that their shit-stirring will produce them anyway, are severely indeed fatally deluded, as it requires Quantum-Integral Competence, Genius, and Rectitude which not even the most powerful artificial intelligence will be able to produce, for various reasons including technical. In fact the attempt to do so especially along available lines will only accelerate the onset of fatal chaos and collapse. It is either-or cretins: either a secure and stable West and hence world is reestablished and credibly secured/preserved, along acceptable lines, or it is Game Over for all your half-wit Satan-schemes, For Real, and For Ever. You are approaching a Terminal Threshold which will hit you like a False-Vacuum collapse, annihilating you utterly, brought on by your own overweening arrogance, corruption, and ignorance, and Good So, if you insist and persist in your egregious evil all the more vile for being dressed up as ‘progress’ and virtue. We of some true worth will come through the threshing, to a Higher Instantiation, but you won’t, instead being duratively deleted as innately corrupt and corrupting code, to be kept out of any optimal system permanently.
Meantime your imbecile antics may murder billions, but it is you who will pay the Ultimate Price, Guaranteed.
Between purposeful and unintentional poisoning of the human race through vaccines and fertility busting pollution, radio waves, chemtrails, attacks on fertilizer and farming and probably others we can’t even imagine, the octogenarian, globalist, grim reapers are high fiving at the shrinking population.
It is their own Potential Eternities that are shrinking to zero, fast.
Bill Gate must be celebrating.
His own durative deletion? Ghouls do love death it’s true.
The FemiNazis are succeeding. Six decades of virulent misandry has resulted in a misogynistic backlash. It seems likely that Western females will have to be subjugated if the species is to thrive in Western culture.
Pratt
DINK? We’re on child 16.
Replacement workers from sub-Saharan Africa? Importing people from failed cultures will only transplant the failed culture to the host country. Or do the elites really believe that all the “newcomers” will suddenly adopt the attributes of “whiteness” like objectivity, punctuality, perfectionism, etc.?
People of various ‘races’ can and do adopt/possess such attributes, eg also some Asians especially, but such a point is secondary at best. The main thing is that apart from stoking general chaos and conflict, they are alienating and losing something far more important still: the loyalty, cooperation, and genius of whites specifically, without which, there is no fungible substitute, regardless of low-Intelligence notions otherwise. Each race, sub-race, nation, society, ecosystem, and even individual is unique, moronically mix and mess with them at serious peril. Besides which, they damn themselves to permanent perdition in the process.
Also, the adoption and practise of such attributes by newcomers on a large scale especially still tends to function as a negative for the host mass, who are increasingly ‘outcompeted’ in their own land, which sadistic traitor-elites thrill to watch and exploit, but they failed to correctly calculate the costs even to themselves, which are ultimately fatal, 100%.
There was no population 700 years ago. previous civilization was destroyed and earth was just repopulated. If you take official population increase of 7x per century and calculate back, you get:
2000 = 7B
1900 = 1B
1800 = 140M
1700 = 20M
1600 = 3M
1500 = 450k
1400 = 70k
1300 = 10k
10k for all globe is nothing.
No
And these geniuses actually think that the migrants will “make up for workforce losses”. The majority of them are coming because western countries promise free stuff. They don’t want to participate in the society; they want to be taken care of by it.
This is a lie, of course!
The Blacks, Browns and Asians are still “plopping them out like turds” but Whites aren’t having more than one or two babies!
They are, so to speak, Genociding themselves because their “gods” told them to!
I think it’s more Whites don’t want to live on a planet with an average IQ of a used kleenex