A collapse in fertility rates, coupled with longer life expectancy, is driving a rapid and pronounced aging of populations.

First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

Penuaan (aging) merupakan hasil dari kenaikan angka harapan hidup dan penurunan tingkat kesuburan.

The United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada have all seen declining birth rates as well.

This prevented the birth rate from rebounding after the Cultural Revolution of 1966 76.

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Chinese, Russians, and Brazilians are no longer replacing themselves, while Indians are having far fewer children.

Indeed, global fertility will fall to the replacement rate in a little more than a decade.

There are now, however, more than 60 countries where the fertility rate is below replacement level.

The interplay of voluntary fertility reduction and declining poverty are profound and rapid.

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One might think that, with declining birthrates in rich countries in recent decades, it should be easy to save more.

But there is nothing to stop the decline from continuing once it reaches that point.

Governments should therefore refrain from deliberate policies to raise birthrates, even in places where birth rates are low.

Any decline in China s growth would thus significantly undermine poverty reduction in the emerging world.

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But this may change as the source countries become richer and undergo rapid declines in birth rates.

Fertility reductions in the richer parts of the world have already brought population growth rates close to zero.

Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago. Their population pyramids are now skewed towards middle aged people who are in their most productive years and relatively free from the burden of raising children.

Weak economic performance in these countries is even more puzzling in view of the sharp drop in their birthrates decades ago.

First and foremost, there is its ever falling labor supply, owing to extraordinarily low birth rates and deep seated resistance to foreign immigration.

Catholics are against birth control.

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Yet Latin America s Catholic population appears to be leveling off, due to falling birth rates and conversions out of Catholicism.

Indeed, 83 countries and territories, including most developed countries, currently have fertility rates below the level necessary to maintain a constant population level.

But for the other economies the decline in price levels ranges from 15 25 , and to nearly 50 in Indonesia.

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Moreover, fertility rates have fallen sharply, to a point where populations in many countries will probably level off in coming decades. Women's status has improved, and girls enjoy equal access to education, with even higher enrollment rates than boys in many countries.

The post war baby boom generation drove a period of sustained economic growth that strengthened Europe s standing in the world and led to dramatic improvements in its citizens quality of life.

Moreover, fertility rates have fallen sharply, to a point where populations in many countries will probably level off in coming decades.

Japan's total population is projected to shrink by around 30 by 2055 as the number of births falls to 40 of the 2005 level.

The Fed s first priority is to try to keep the American economy from dropping too far below full employment, and to try and avoid a US meltdown contaminating other economies.

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Its weakness will now continue.

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