I saw this going viral “Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think.” Although the issue is often described in alarmist language, the evidence shows that population decline remains very gradual. Japan, the posterchild of low fertility, has only seen its population fall a tiny bit since peaking, from 127 million in 2000 to presently 124 million. Even more remarkable, this is in spite of minimal immigration. Japan’s fertility rate first went sub-replacement in 1975, only for its popul...
