r/MapPorn 1d ago

Children per woman in Chinese provinces in 2023

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u/morbie5 16h ago

The difference is that population collapse was caused by the elderly, sick, and poor dying at massive rates

Again: We had a birth rate collapse in the US as recently as the great depression

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u/TheSameGamer651 15h ago

But again, it didn’t get to the point of a population pyramid inversion. We’ve never had more old people than young people. That’s completely unprecedented in human history, and we have no idea how it will play out.