The End of Children | The New Yorker

archive.today webpage capture Saved from history←priornext→ 6 Apr 2025 12:56:47 UTC All snapshots from host www.newyorker.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuse Skip to main content Newsletter Sign In Search The Latest News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Puzzles & Games Video Podcasts Goings On Shop 100th Anniversary A Reporter at Large The End of Children Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus February 24, 2025 Play/Pause Button If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the size of the previous one. Every hundred contemporary Koreans of childbearing age will produce, in total, about twelve grandchildren.Illustration by Javier Jaén Listen to this story 00:00 01:14:29 1x 15 15 Societies do collapse, sometimes suddenly. Nevertheless, prophets of doom might keep in mind that their darkest predictions have been, on the whole, a little premature. In 1968, Paul Ehrlich

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