The 2021 Baby Boom Didn't Last
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
But there were still 47,573 more births last year than there were in 2020.
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"Synthetic wombs make having kids much faster, easier, cheaper, and more accessible."
Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and lack of economic mobility.
Americans have a reputation for being cockeyed optimists, but we're suckers when it comes to "declension narratives" about the fallen state of our world.
Americans are freely choosing to have fewer children.
A new working paper argues that car seat laws are discouraging moms from having a third child.
The total fertility rate falls to its lowest level ever.
Negative population growth back in 1919 was largely the result of the Spanish flu pandemic
The global total fertility rate fell by more than half, from 5 births per woman in 1960 to 2.4 today. But don't panic!
Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
Is the solution a "fertility dividend" that makes a portion of a person's Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring's earnings?
Falling fertility means that folks now have increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have.
If you read Reason you already know these three pieces of good news about global trends.
Maybe, but it's more likely that Americans chose to have fewer kids.
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
New report claims U.S. overpopulation will blight their futures.
There's an easy way to make more Americans: immigration.
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times
Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress
There's never been a better time to be alive
U.S. total fertility rate close to lowest ever too
Richer is more climate-friendly, especially for developing countries.
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
New York Times columnist reveals today the "secret" that my new book documents.