A look at the Fire Horse year, 1966’s birth collapse, and why 2026 will be different.

... 🚨 China leads with 2M+ more deaths than births. Aging populations & low birth rates are reshaping the world. 🌏 Solutions? #Demography #PopulationDecline #AgingSociety

The Bloomberg news agency, in an article about how mobilization is leaching manpower from the economy, again reveals the unpleasant truth of modern existence in a country candidate for EU and NATO accession

In 2023, 187 thousand children were born in Ukraine-controlled territory. This is 251% less than in 1990, when Ukraine gained its independence. Of course, since 2014 the statistics does not take into account

President Joe Biden met with congressional leaders and warned them that not approving additional funding for Ukraine could possibly result in the deployment of US troops to that country, White House

A continuation of my loose thoughts about Valérie's tweet, and a reminder of the GFC.

A compilation of my favourite excerpts from Morland's book "The Human Tide", with few comments of mine

4 charts on China, and my opinion on its trajectory

My view on the new Russian war

Why I am short Germany

Italy Is Facing the Worst Demographic Crisis Since World War I (Bloomberg) Demographic Crisis Italy’s population faces the lowest natural balance since World War I Italy’s population is facing the lowest

“THE DECLINE of the birth rate and the ageing of Japanese society is accelerating at unprecedented speed,” warns Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister. Given the scale of the problem, he told The Economist

Mizoram India's minorities have come up with marriage rules to protect their interests. First, it was in Meghalaya. Now in Mizoram. The Young Mizo Association (YMA) has demanded that a rule should be made

Для тех кто способен самостоятельно делать выводы.

Не получилось у противников пенсионной реформы набрать сколько-нибудь значимые политические очки. Оно и понятно, ибо необходимость реформы перезрела уже. Возможно реформа должна быть несколько иной и выбран

Falling birthrates have been in the news lately. Some countries are facing an extinction event, especially in eastern europe. Here is a look at how the number of births have changed country by country:

Decenni fa si parlava di bomba demografica. Più precisamente si faceva riferimento al numero di figli medio per donna, noto come tasso di fertilità. Questo tasso risultava piuttosto elevato nei paesi in

'아라보자'입니다! 우리나라의 노인 인구가 유소년 인구보다 처음으로 많아졌다는 소식입니다. 생산가능인구도 줄어들기 시작했습니다. 통계청은 22일 우리나라의 사회상과 전반적인 경제, 사회의 변화를 보여주는 통계를 재분류하고 가공해 '2017 한국의 사회지표'를 발간했는데요. 지난해 우리나라의 65세 이상 고령인구는 약 707만6천명으로, 675만1천명인 0~14세

Those who want us to tolerate the freedom-eradication cult are unaware of one essential consequence of their position. They do not know the one thing that the Cult knows. The Cult knows that demography

Demography is clearly tied to the economy. For centuries, the population structure of European and Asian countries remained stable thanks to a balance, at that time, untouched: many births and many deaths.