- Demographic Decline is hard to reverse: Zoho CEO warns of China’s decline, says he wants to pursue pro-baby policies – Business Day, January 5
Zoho is a global tech company, it’s CEO Sridhar Vembu warns that demographic decline could burst China’s economic bubble the way it did Japan’s. “According to Vembu, demographic decline stems from choices made during rapid industrialization, including erosion of traditional culture and the rise of the nuclear family. ‘Demographic decline, once it sets in motion, is hard to reverse. I don’t know of any country that has reversed it.’”
- World is running out of children as global birthrates are collapsing across the globe – Stephen W. Mosher in The New York Post, August 31, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/08/31/opinion/the-world-is-running-out-of-children/
“The result of these empty wombs is that humanity just passed a milestone, though not one we should celebrate. For the first time in the 60,000 or so years that human beings first arrived on the planet, we are not having enough babies to replace ourselves.”
- Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds – Japan Times, December 20, 2024
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/20/japan/anxiety-government-survey/
An annual government-sponsored survey found 78.2% of respondents feel anxious or worried, the highest level since 1981. They worry about their health (63%), future income (58%) and plans for retirement (62.8%).
They should be worried about their nation’s survival.
Japan has a fertility rate of 1.26, well below replacement (2.1). In 2023, Japan lost 831,872 people, the 17th consecutive year of decline. They should be scared as hell about where the young workers will come from to pay their pensions and health care when they retire.
Stop Demographic Winter 
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