This article explores the increasing trend of singledom globally and its impact on declining birth rates. While traditional policies focus on encouraging couples to have more children, the article argues that the root cause lies in the decline of relationship formation, particularly among young adults.
There’s a reason birth rates are an increasingly prominent feature in discourse and policymaking today. Population ageing and decline is one of the most powerful forces in the world, shaping everything from economics to politics and the environment. But a weakness to the debate — perhaps even the term “birth rates” itself — is that it implies the goal is the same today as it was in the past: finding ways to encourage couples to have more children.
From the US, Finland and South Korea to Turkey, Tunisia and Thailand, falling birth rates are increasingly downstream of a relationship recession among young adults. Baby bonuses put the cart before the horse when a growing share of people are without a partner. Even in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, similar trends may be under way.
BIRTH RATES RELATIONSHIP TRENDS SINGLEDOM SOCIAL POLICY DEMOGRAPHICS
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