‘We need to keep trying’: tackling Greece’s falling birthrate – in pictures
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 12 April - 09:15
With Greece’s fertility rate one of the lowest in Europe, in May the government plans to introduce measures such as cash benefits for families, affordable housing for young people, financial incentives for assisted reproduction, and incorporating migrants into the workforce
Continue reading...Free pets? Baby bonuses? Surely the solution to falling birthrates is clarity on immigration | Devi Sridhar
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 2 April - 13:47 · 1 minute
When desperate measures to persuade women to have children fail, it’s time to think differently about demographics
For the past 75 years in global public health, one of the major priorities has been exponential population growth and Malthusian concerns that the supply of food on the planet won’t be able to keep up. In 1951, the world’s population was 2.5 billion, which increased to 4 billion by 1975, 6.1 billion by 2000, and 8 billion by 2023. Governments in the two most populous countries, India and China, even implemented, respectively, draconian policies such as forced sterilisation and a one-child restriction.
It now seems that many nations have switched to worrying about the opposite problem. Findings published last month from the Global Burden of Disease study, which examines epidemiological trends across the world, notes that fertility rates are falling in most countries. This can be seen as a public health success: lower fertility rates tend to reflect fewer children dying in the first 10 years of life, and an environment that protects women’s bodily autonomy and access to birth control, as well as girls’ education. Having mainly planned pregnancies is seen as societal progress.
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
Continue reading...Cost of raising children in China is second-highest in the world, think-tank reveals
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 21 February - 17:55
Expense of child-rearing and challenge of balancing work and family-life key factors in China’s declining birthrate and shrinking population
China is one of the most expensive places in the world to raise a child, outstripping the US and Japan in relative terms, a prominent Chinese thinktank has said.
A report released on Wednesday by the Beijing-based Yuwa Population Research Institute found that the average cost of raising a child in China until the age of 18 is 538,000 yuan (£59,275) – more than 6.3 times as high as its GDP per capita, compared with 4.11 times in the US or 4.26 times in Japan.
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Cette région est la plus peuplée de France mais sa ville principale perd des habitants !
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 2 January - 11:30
Choosing childlessness for the sake of the planet | Letters
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 12 November - 16:40
Public policies shouldn’t be shaped around boosting birth rates, says Madeleine Hewitt . Plus a letter from Val Harding
While it’s a tragedy that so many are afraid to have children due to climate breakdown, that doesn’t have to be a decision drawn from fear, but a positive, proactive choice to help solve the climate crisis ( More people not having children due to climate breakdown fears, finds research, 9 November ).
Our growing numbers place increasing strain on the environment, with the IPCC having just last year cited population growth as one of the two strongest drivers (alongside per capita GDP) of carbon emissions. A greater public understanding of how the climate crisis will impact future generations is a good thing, motivating and equipping us all to take the actions and demand the changes that are so vitally needed. In light of this, public policies should be shaped to strengthen environmental protections and adapt to managing an ageing population, rather than boost birth rates. A universal human pursuit is to want to improve things for the next generation, even if in this case it means having a smaller one.
Madeleine Hewitt
Campaigns and media officer,
Population Matters
The census defines us. To scrap it is to lose sight of our past – and our future | Sonia Sodha
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 12 November - 07:01
The concept of a census – a count of every member of a population – is almost as ancient as civilisation . The Babylonians recorded a population count on clay tiles from 4000BC. The Egyptians collected census data from 2500BC to inform projects such as the construction of the pyramids and the reassignment of land after the flooding of the Nile.
And, as every child who’s performed the nativity knows, the Romans required everyone to return to their place of birth for a count every five years to inform tax collection from the 6th century BC.
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La population mondiale a quadruplé en 100 ans mais elle commence à stagner
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 15 November, 2022 - 10:30
Nous venons de franchir le cap des 8 milliards de personnes vivantes sur Terre. Les experts estiment que nous serons 10 milliards en 2080.
La population mondiale a quadruplé en 100 ans mais elle commence à stagner
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La population mondiale pourrait diminuer de moitié d’ici 2100
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 - 16:00
Entre la baisse de la natalité, le vieillissement de la population et les inquiétudes liées au réchauffement climatique, la population mondiale pourrait être divisée par deux d'ici le prochain siècle.
La population mondiale pourrait diminuer de moitié d’ici 2100
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Réponse à la question : Cette place peut-elle accueillir telle manifestation ?
Mathias Poujol-Rost ✅ · Saturday, 11 March, 2017 - 17:41
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