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OPINION: How long you live may depend on how much money you make
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A central crisis is emerging in the US
Demography is fate. For decades America has had the economic and geopolitical fruits of a high birth rate. Between 1990 and 2010, fertility levels in the U.S. were higher than the average in developed countries except for Israel, Iceland, and New Zealand.
So what does it mean that the U.S. birth rate is on the verge of plunging below the latest European trend rate? In 2007, before the Great Recession, the U.S. fertility rate, which is the number of births a woman will have in her lifetime, was 2.12. By 2019, before hitting Covid-19, it had dropped to 1.71.