On a special episode (first released on August 1, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Across the globe, populations are in precipitous decline. People are simply not having children at the fertility rate ...

Precipitous population decline in the world’s leading developed countries threatens to foreshadow similar issues in the United States, a trajectory the Trump administration likely holds limited ...

Humanity is about to turn a major population corner, according to a new estimate. A recent article in the Lancet predicts that by 2030, we’ll no longer be reproducing fast enough to replace ourselves.

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