Global fertility rates are going down.

For the past 100 years, fertility rates around the world have been dropping - some countries sooner than others. This video explores some of those declines and aims to start more conversation about the connecting events.

Thanks for braving through the boredom and I pray that we’d be able to find solutions through dialogue.

Opinions held by John Ashworth as of July of ’22.

Sources:
Data from Data Commons: https://datacommons.org/
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
The Gapminder Foundation: https://www.gapminder.org/topics/babies-per-woman/
China’s factory demographics: https://www.ft.com/content/c8948f1e-2653-11e3-8ef6-00144feab7de
Indonesia’s Muslim demographics: https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam_by_country
All mentioned countries' fertility rates: https://bit.ly/3ane2dj