The data are in: The United States is getting older and welcoming fewer babies. This decades-long phenomenon is creating a demographic squeeze that some anticipate will affect nearly every aspect of the nation’s economy and infrastructure over the next couple of decades.
“I see a total reshuffling of our economy and society, brought about by historic demographic turnover,” regenerative medicine specialist Dr. David Ghozland told The Epoch Times.
In a report for the American Enterprise Institute, economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde called falling U.S. fertility rates “the true economic challenge of [the] time.”
The number of adults aged 65 and older is forecast to hit 82 million by 2050 and will make up 23 percent of the population, according to the Population Reference Bureau. That is a 42 percent increase from 58 million people aged 65 and older in 2022.
Meanwhile, the general fertility rate—the number of live births per 1,000 women of childbearing age—has dropped to record lows. The North American rate plummeted from 3.1 in 1950 to 1.6 in 2023, according to a McKinsey Global Institute analysis published in January.
The ones that are reproducing are the ones that we want fewer of…
Families on the dole – not producing…just costing!
We need to change our welfare programs – no more money for additional kids…x number of years and you are out…able bodied – gotta work!
Amen!
Who can afford to have babies other than those who don’t have to pay for them? If you have to buy their diapers, food and pay for their medical care, you can’t afford them.
Who would want to raise a baby in the United States now, since the American dream has been stolen and now impossible to reach?