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    Exploring how plummeting fertility rates across two-thirds of humanity are creating unprecedented economic challenges, from unsustainable retirement systems to shrinking workforces, and how societies might adapt to this demographic reversal.

    The Global Baby Bust Crisis

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    We've spent decades worrying about overpopulation, but now many countries are facing the opposite problem. The entire economic system we've built assumes continuous population growth, and we are now entering uncharted territory where that engine is running in reverse.

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