Fertility Rates Are Declining. Is Tech to Blame?
Rising inequality and social isolation have led to an “epidemic of despair” that is driving down fertility rates worldwide, according to a new paper by Penn neuroscientists Michael Platt and Peter Sterling.
This acute sense of loneliness and anxiety is contributing to more physical and mental ailments, particularly in high-income countries, and dampening the most basic of human desires — procreation. The U.S. birth rate has declined by an average 2% a year for the last decade. The global fertility rate has plunged to 2.3 (live births per person) and is expected to continue decreasing below the 2.1 rate needed for population replacement.
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