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Latest data from the CDC released yesterday showed just shy of 3.6million children were born in the US last year, also down two percent from the previous year.
By mid-century, global human population will fall for the first time since the “Black Death” (bubonic plague) of the 1300s wiped out 50 million people in Europe and beyond.