Fertility Rates Keep Dropping, And It’s Going To Hit The Economy Hard

Total fertility rates, which can be defined as the average number of children born to a woman who survives her reproductive years (aged 15-49), have decreased globally by about half since 1960. This has drastically shaped today’s global economy, but as Visual Capitalist’s Caitlin Cheadle explains, a continued decline could have much more severe long-term consequences.
If the world has too many elderly dependents and not enough workers, the burden on economic growth will be difficult to overcome.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 30, 2016.

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