China's fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said on Tuesday, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country's declining number of new births.
Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work, hopefully enough to support a population with a larger proportion of retired/unemployed humans.
On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…
Aging population of disproportionately unmarried males and very low immigration.
China’s gonna get weird in the next decade or two.
And the rest of the developed world is going to follow close behind as long as the wealth inequality stays as ridiculously broken as it is.
One of the major difference with the rest of the developed world is the more or less accepted immigration. See Germany for example.
That is most likely only a bandaid too birthrates are falling all over the world. Something is going to need to change eventually.
Robots and AIs can start handling more and more of the work, hopefully enough to support a population with a larger proportion of retired/unemployed humans.
Actually the opposite. Generally wealthy nations and individuals have fewer children.
That’s the problem.
You sound like a domestic terrorist sir… how about you work harder!
On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…
/s obviously but it is really bad for them
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