Population collapse for the human race isn’t so much a problem, we’ll weather through it as a species. For an economy, population decline is very not good though. You need working age people to support the young and old, as well as everything else your taxes go to.
These fears over population collapse are the weirdest form of mass hysteria I’ve ever seen.
Population collapse for the human race isn’t so much a problem, we’ll weather through it as a species. For an economy, population decline is very not good though. You need working age people to support the young and old, as well as everything else your taxes go to.
The issue is that demographic collapse can and almost certainly will have devastating economic consequences for the countries facing it.