'The "baby bust" seen over the last ten years as millennials waited
longer to have children could end up looking less like a "blip" and more
like a permanent, long-lasting trend.'
By Tyler Durden: The world's most developed countries are seeing population growth slow to a crawl, with the population of Japan, the EU and the US now expected to shrink between now and the beginning of the latter half of the 21st Century. As we noted on Jan. 1, the US recorded the slowest rate of population growth in a century between 2018 and 2019, thanks to the one-two punch of lower birth rates and declining immigration. But the US is in comparatively good shape relative to Japan, which is already seeing deaths outstrip births.