Birth dearth

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Birth dearth is a neologism referring to falling fertility rates. In the late 1980s, the term was used in the context of American and European society.^[1] The use of the term has since been expanded to include many other industrialized nations. It is often cited as a response to overpopulation, but is not incompatible with it.

[edit] Russia

Russia is often mentioned in articles concerning birth dearth because of its rapidly declining population, and the proposal by Vladimir Putin to offer women additional benefits for having multiple children. It predicted that Russia's population will be an estimated 111 million in 2050, opposed to 147 million as of the year 2000 according to the UN World Population Prospects report (2004 Revision, middle variant).

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• "Birth Dearth", Michael Meyer, Newsweek, September 27, 2004
• "Behind the Birth Dearth", Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post, May 24, 2006
• The "End of species" hypothesis Does demographic decline mark the end of humanity's life cycle? May ET civilizations follow the same path?