Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Birth rates in many countries fell over 10 percent from 2021 to 2023. The mRNA Covid jabs don’t seem to be the culprit. Some nations that heavily used them saw large declines, but they were not alone.
At this rate no one is going to be around to replace anyone else.
From Asia to Europe to the Americas, across nations and races and religions, birth rates plunged again in 2023.
Countries across the developed world are having kids at levels far too low to keep their populations steady. Women must have about 2.1 children on average to maintain a stable population. But many wealthy and even middle-income countries are now below 1.5 kids per woman. Some are under 1, heralding demographic collapse.
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.
Newly leaked data reveals that China recorded fewer than 8 million births in 2023. If that figure is confirmed, it will represent a decline of 17 percent from 2022, and an unfathomable drop of almost 60 percent since 2016.
Yes, you read that correctly.
In 2016, China – which has about 1.4 billion people – reported 18.8 million births, according to Caixin, a Beijing-based investigative magazine. (Although every Chinese news organization faces government censorship, Caixin is still reasonably reliable.)
But by 2019, even before Covid and China’s harsh lockdowns, births had fallen to 14.7 million. Since then, they have plunged even faster. By one estimate, China had fewer children born in 2022 than it did in 1790.
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(Zero-child policy.)
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Sociologists and political scientists have blamed China’s worsening political repression and its slowing economic growth for the sudden baby bust.
But China, which is far richer than it was a generation ago, is also simply falling in line with smaller East Asian neighbors like Taiwan and Singapore. Those countries have had low fertility rates for decades, yet their birth rates are still falling.
The East Asian baby bust is not limited to ethnic Chinese, either. Women in Thailand and Japan now have an average roughly 1.2 children. And South Korea, the world leader in this unfortunate limbo, hit a record low of about 0.7 children per woman. South Korea has almost 52 million people. Women there had roughly the same number of births in 2023 as Florida, which has just over 22 million.
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Births are plunging in Europe, too, particularly in northern European countries such as France, which had posted relatively high fertility rates – in part because of Muslim immigrants. Across a swath of Europe from Ireland to Germany to Finland, births are down more than 10 percent in the last two years, with women now expected to have roughly 1.3-1.5 children on average. (France is still slightly higher.)
About the only marginally good news is that birth rates are declining more slowly in Southern Europe. But declining they are, and from a low base. Italy and Spain are both in the 1.1-1.2 child per woman average.
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Governments are increasingly aware of the fertility crisis. Many countries have done far more than the United States to offer financial help to families with young children.
Northern European nations like Sweden also aggressively protect women who have kids from workplace discrimination, and France is known for its excellent highly subsidized child care.
But the direct credits or cash payments seem to make little difference, and the plunging fertility rates in northern Europe suggest that even good child care is no longer enough to entice women on the bubble to have children.
Meanwhile, the United States still has relatively high fertility levels among advanced nations, though it too has seen a slow decline.
As for the mRNA jabs, the worldwide and synchronized drop in births suggests they are probably not to blame. So does the fact that China, which did not use them, saw among the biggest decreases since 2021. Meanwhile, southern European countries and the United States, which did, have seen relatively small declines.
As upsetting as an mRNA-driven fertility decline might be, at least then the world would have an explanation, and a target to fix. Instead a combination of cultural and economic factors – possibly accelerated by declines in male or female fertility – seems to be driving the bust.
And the problem is only getting worse.
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“At this rate no one is going to be around to replace anyone else.”
Bwahahahahahha! Check the forecast of population growth in Africa and get back to me.
Some genders may have gone awry.
Possibly some people should not be allowed to procreate.
Those evil grocery stores!
Dyslexia: It’s What’s For Dinner!
The fools from Africa are all illegally entering Europe, where they will be killed off too!
Those who cannot survive winter will not survive winter.
Despite Bill Gates great efforts in that regard.
Llpoh
Check the data. You are correct they have the highest birth rates and they are above replacement.
However trends show they are falling rapidly and will be below replacement in 10 to twenty years
the low IQ Africans were warned by their leaders not to take the vax,
vax uptake in Africa was 3%, so yeah they are still breeding like flies
LET EM BREED, THEY’LL JUST FREEZE AND STARVE TO DEATH LIKE THE REST OF EUROPE.
Yeah,that’s good news. At least Africa will have a bumper crop of rocket scientists.
” . . . having kids at levels far too low to keep their populations steady.”
The population has never been steady. In fact, world population has tripled and US population has more than doubled during my lifetime. A bust is something I have expected, because regression to the mean is how these things typically work out.
And, as the pendulum swings, for a time it will have to drop well below the mean.
You cannot determine the normal baseline by looking out your window, and the current state is not the normal baseline. We have spent our entire lives looking at extraordinary times.
KFG
All the stats show declining birth rates worldwide since the 1960s. Coincidentally when the pill was introduced.
Ask any 20 something woman if they want children. The answers will amaze you.
Hell just read Ravens post below. She is more worried about a man stealing her job than having babies.
“The answers will amaze you. ”
No, they won’t. As I said, I expected it.
It’s going to be hard to kills hundreds of millions of people in the next world war if they’re simply not being born. This could have a devasting effect on my MIC portfolio .
How many of the American births were actually shit skins from down south?
One race…MAGA…reeeeee
Kid kinda looks like a guppy.
Good luck with transplants and blood if it needs those
You have to pay d’ hoze nowadays… only fanz know dis.
Incentives don’t work. It’s already been proven.
China will be the first to ban birth control for women with less than 2-3 children
That worked in Germany
Why would anyone have children when the self-claimed rulers of the world remind us in every way possible they are hell-bent on a genocidal warpath?
Why would anyone have children when the first thing that happens to them upon leaving the birth canal is to suffer an endless assault of voodoo needles, followed by years of mind-numbing indoctrination and financial slavery?
Why would women want to bear children when they are constantly reminded men are clamoring for their job?
Bruh, why are you so against daycare…do you even do muh capitalism?
Raven = toxic feminist
Raven
Your job is to have babies. As a man I am unqualified to take that job from you.
Raven
Thank god you are not going to reproduce.
Raven
Good Luck dying alone.
doesn’t having a room full of cats count as not being alone???
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”,and have some man,or government,pick up the tab.
The number of miscarriages by vaxed women is astronomical. The author correctly points out the problem but is protecting the vax! Add fluoride in the water, processed food and all the other vaccines that people take and it is a wonder we have any children. My two sons have three kids each and it is my sworn duty to see those kids have the best of everything because they will be needed in this world we are about to live in!
Only one that got it correct. The government data is a lie and birth rates are 1 in 200 from what I can tell. Still births are counted in the total as being one born. The 1 of the 200 has a 75 percent chance of dieing in 15 months. Vax fem are now hunting unvx males. She can’t get pregnet with unvx male either. This is worse then people here realize. If they only knew that our plant is on the edge of extenction, they would not be posting meanless garbage. By the way, the asshole that wrote this thing above is a paid controlled ops.
Wife: Why must I work.
Husband: Capitalism, honey…it’s our freedum…
Wife: Why must I work two jobs.
Husband: For the children, honey, Daycare ain’t cheap and muh capitalism ain’t free. You have to pull yourself up by your throngstrap.
And every country will try more welfare for women as a solution. Only 1 thing will work, but there’s zero political willpower to make it happen.
Get rid of the jews?
Answer = Bring back patriarchy. Israel is the only 1st word country with above replacement rate level birth rate…thanks to Orthodox Jews. Orthodox Jews are patriarchal.
I’m sick of listening to Berenson…”vaccines are probably not the culprit”.
What would the spike protein having a predilection for accumulating in the ovaries have to do with decreasing fertility rates, Mr. Berenson?
ANS: I don’t know what it is but it’s definitely not the “vaccines”.
Spiritual death kinda puts a damper on creating new lives.
Turns out the sequel to The Abolition of Man is Children of Men.
It’s almost like they’re spraying something in the skies. But that would be crazy.
No mention of the birth rates of muslims because they are producing the replacement population for western countries.
As they’ve stated was the goal, for decades. Taking over the host country from the inside out. The Third Jihad or the Cultural Jihad – both the same thing.
They play the long game, while the west watches the circus and theatre.
orthodox jews, too … many families of which have 7 – 9 children … just go up and down the Hudson River Valley or in any of the orthodox neighborhoods of NYC …
Don’t forget the Amish
I would take them as a neighbor anytime.
Unlike the muslims, orthodox jews are a very small % of the population. Muslims are a growing segment of the population and have large enclaves in every city in the country.
Do their men work,or just sponge off welfare?
Gee…..with the world wide social and cultural disruption created by the Banksters/ WEF/ Bolsheviks….who in their right mind would feel safe enough to bring a child into the world?
Michele
That is exactly what they want. You are doing their bidding.
The world with a lower population would be a good place to live as long as enough people left alive had useful, productive skills instead of useless college degrees and various forms of mental illness.
MY FRIENDS, WHEN THE DEATH BY BOOSTERS REALLY GETS GOING AND DISEASE X IS UNLEASHED UPON OUR WORLD THERE WON’T BE ENOUGH OF WE PURE BLOODS LEFT TO BURY ALL THE BODIES. THE ELITES HAVEN’T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT IS AWAITING THEM IF THEY FOLLOW THRU WITH THEIR PLANS OF WORLD POPULATION EXTERMINATION. SURE THEY’LL ALL RETIRE TO THEIR MOUNTAIN FASTNESSES AND DEEP BUNKERS TO WAIT OUT THE STORMS BUT THEY HAVE TO COME OUT SOMETIME AND IF THEIR BUNKERS AND MOUNTAIN FORTRESSES ARE BREACHED BY THE STARVING AND DYING MASSES OF HUMANITY THEY’LL JOIN THE REST OF HUMANITY IN THE GREAT DIE OFF. WE’LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS NOW WON’T WE.
Western people of child bearing age are choosing to not have children. They are mostly hedonists who want to visit Costa Rica and live the Kardasian life. Their kids are lucky not to be born.
The young people of my acquaintance are quite peeved that their co-pay for having a baby is $17,000. That might have some additional effects on fertility.
I and the wife did 8, cost over 10k medical expense per, but was so worth it. Doing my part to keep good people in the world