Comment by fbdab103

Heh. Silly American thoughts.

This site[0] says Global birthrate is around 17.3. However, it has been dropping ~1% a year. It was 19.3 in 2014 and today it is 17.3. So indeed growing more slowly, but a strong trendline downwards.

Table copied and limited to the decades:

    Year  Birth Rate  Growth Rate
    2024  17.299  -0.940%
    2020  18.077  -1.120%
    2010  19.991  -0.870%
    2000  21.733  -1.090%
    1990  26.094  -2.400%
    1980  28.192  -0.530%
    1970  32.995  -1.520%
    1960  35.346  -0.110%
    1950  37.844  0.000%

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/wor...