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Shrinking states: a positive future with fewer people?

Shrinking states: a positive future with fewer people?

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The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row – a trend mirrored all over the world, with two-thirds of the global population now living in countries below replacement level. In the second episode of a two-part series, Mad

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The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third
year in a row – a trend mirrored across the world, with two-thirds
of the global population now living in countries with
below-replacement-level fertility. In the second episode of a
two-part series, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dean Spears, assistant
professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Dr
Jennifer Sciubba, chief executive of the Population Reference
Bureau, to ask whether declining birth rates are really something
to worry about – and how societies can adapt to a future with fewer
children. Watch the new Guardian documentary Between Moon Tides.
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