- China is one of the world’s most unaffordable places to raise a child, a Beijing think tank says.
- The cost of raising a child compared to GDP per capita is 6.3 times in China, but 4.11 in the US, it said.
- The cost of raising a child is sinking China’s already falling birth rate, the researchers said.
Yes, that’s the definition of a decreasing birth rate. If it continues to decrease (it’s happening worldwide, and nobody’s figured out how to reverse the trend yet), we hit peak population this century and start declining.
https://archive.ph/YjTq7
This is a very interesting read for anybody who wants to know more about the topic
I think I know how to reverse the trend. Make the world a not shit place, make it so the world isn’t literally ending around us, and provide financial security so people feel safe raising children.
That being said, dunno why we would actually want more people until we head to space.
I really wish the article did more to support it’s position that a declining population is bad for human progress towards the back half of this century. Seems like a pretty important pillar of the discussion but it has maybe two throw away sentences with references to papers that are actually unrelated to its claim.
Meh, that didn’t bother me. That wasn’t the purpose of the article to delve into every implication of the data, and doing so would call into question the motive for posting the factual information it was providing with some of its audience. They kept if fairly objective and left the more subjective questions to the readers.