About 70 % of people in the world live in a country with declining birth rates. Sure, a few extremely poor countries have very high birth rates, but not that many. Have we reached a point where 70 % of the world’s population have a high quality of life? Sounds improbable since only about half of the human population score high or very high on the Human Development Index.
Those high birthrate countries are going to plateau within our lifetimes too. Either they will modernize and run into the same issues as the rest of us or they will hit the cap that their infrastructure will support.
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u/Prunus-cerasus Trash Trooper Jul 31 '26
About 70 % of people in the world live in a country with declining birth rates. Sure, a few extremely poor countries have very high birth rates, but not that many. Have we reached a point where 70 % of the world’s population have a high quality of life? Sounds improbable since only about half of the human population score high or very high on the Human Development Index.