Demographics
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U.S. shouldn't put its bets on China's demographics leading to near/medium-term decline. I'm not an economist but was exchanging notes with someone who is a very good one. Some k...
You've probably seen this viral map of Canada: 50% of the country's population lives under the red line Here's a quick explainer🧵 https://t.co/cXVem8FXOv
Demographics is destiny. China 🇨🇳 has lost 40 million workers since 2020. And its population is forecast to be cut in half by 2100. Short 🧵 below on hugely consequential demogra...
New research suggests that, if it is not careful, China may be on track for a new wave of Japanification. https://t.co/OT1tmo3V5g https://t.co/21S82VJSG6
Everyone is now talking about Korea's super low fertility rate. I can work to explain a lot of it. First is education. The national obsession with education (as a totem of achieve...
Wow... More college students than babies. Last year, over 10 million students were accepted by various colleges and universities while there were only 9.56 million babies born in...
https://t.co/UAsFqiu01e Nikkei editor's need to learn abc of demography & looking at data before giving hot takes Conservative prefectures in Japan have higher TFR Japanese who r m...
A leading demographer who has long warned on China's population challenge wrote about the extremely low fertility rate, its consequences for the Chinese economy and nation, and pol...
A new report paints a damning picture of life in rural China where “it's common for young couples just leave their kids to the grandparents.” https://t.co/0nPeWEjRze
A thread on “Guns, Babies, and China” (with apologies to Jared Diamond). At the risk of over-simplification, I would argue that the seeds of our economic problems over the last qua...
Birthrates are falling in the rich world and elsewhere. Women and men in these places on average want 2 children but have far fewer. Why? I think we’ve been missing something 🧵 ht...
We discussed India's 1.4B people earlier this week, but China also has 1.4B ppl Why? Is it a coincidence these 2 population giants are neighbors? Why do most of its 1.4B ppl live...
Generation Alpha (Gen Alpha for short): those who were born in the early 2010s and the mid-2020s https://t.co/wCoyiUbeha
India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why? Because of the biggest accident in history Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?...
I have a new report out today with @cardusca about fertility in Canada. We surveyed 2,700 Canadian women and found that they want to have 2.2 kids, only expect to have 1.9, but are...
The only solution to the collapse is reigniting reproduction and fostering families among the excellent, not shuffling around arbitrary impoverished global masses into new environm...
(1/11) Hinduism is boxed into a high risk state of dependency on 1 race & 1 country with hostile nuclear neighbors There are handful nations other than India with a 20%+ Hindu po...
Men said they also enjoy personal freedoms, but many additionally said other motivators for remaining single included concerns over job insecurity and not being able to earn enough...
The tiny island of Java has more population than all of Russia More than all of Japan Why? https://t.co/mrkRzU5uCx
Future of Humanity in Danger as 13 European Countries See Alarming Drops in Birth Rates -Switzerland had the largest birth rate drop in 150 years -Australian birth rates fell 21...
The trend of declining #population cannot be reversed, but we can change people’s behavior and expectations, said Cai Fang, CF40 Advisor and Chief Expert of National Think Tank at...
All of this happened in China this week. A thread. 1/10
🧵The Chinese Nightmare🧵 1/ There are still conservatives, and some NYT progressives who fear/dream that China's authoritarianism is going to outcompete the west economically and...
Ukraine Demographics: —UA started the conflict with 45 million people. —15 million fled, 11mm to Europe, 4mm to Russia. (UN figures) —9 million are in the areas annexed by Russia....
