Fertile men and women in the world became 50% less
Fertility level of the adult population of the planet decreased by about 50%that in the near future can turn around a real catastrophe for humanity. This was reported by the journal Lancet, which published the latest scientific data on infertility and fertility in different countries.
The researchers analyzed data on fertility (physical ability to have children) from 1950 to 2017.
If in the 50s of the last century women gave birth to an average of 4.7 children per life, a year ago this figure was only 2.4.
In different countries, this figure is different, for example, African countries are distinguished by the number of 7.1 children per woman, and in Cyprus only 1 child is born for each representative of the fair sex of childbearing age.
Europe and the UK have changed little since 1950, and there is a stable 1.7 children per woman there.
Fertility is the number obtained by dividing the number of live babies per number of women of reproductive age. In contrast to the birth rate, which simply displays the number of children per thousand population, only women of reproductive age are taken into account when determining fertility.
In science, there is a certain approach to assessing the situation. So, a drop in the fertility rate below 2.1 means that the population is rapidly decreasing. And high rates of the coefficient (as in African countries) mean that the infant mortality rate is also high there.
It should be noted that in 1950 there was not a single country on the planet where fertility would be less than 2.
At the University of Oxford, where the calculations were carried out, they stated that the society was undergoing great demographic changes. Countries in which there are very low fertility rates today should think about encouraging fertility at the state level or thinking about how to organize the influx of migrants.
Professor Christopher Murray, who led the research team, is confident that a society in which there are more pensioners and older people than young people is doomed, if not to extinction, but to a difficult existence.
Today, Japan has already faced this problem, and soon this situation awaits all European states, Cyprus, Puerto Rico and a number of other countries.
