Japan experienced a historic decline in the number of newborns in 2023, coinciding with the country’s largest-ever population decrease.

Innovative forecasting methods predict that by mid-century, three-quarters of the world’s countries will fall below this replacement fertility threshold.

The specter of overpopulation has loomed in public discourse for years, yet in developed nations, it’s the prospect of dwindling birth rates that alarms demographers.

Japan’s birth rate fell to a new low in 2022, dropping below 800,000 for the first time in history, raising concerns about the demographic challenges facing the world’s oldest and most rapidly aging society.

“Israel” cannot have at the same time a strong Jewish majority, all the land it conquered in 1967 and full democracy that does not discriminate against Arabs.