Andrew Sage

And by the year 2100, the global average is expected to dip below replacement level of 2.1 to about 1.8 children per woman.

Now, some countries are already there.

Japan sits at a 1.2 children per woman.

Italy, Spain, and much of Eastern Europe are well below 1.5.

South Korea is famously a demographic outlier at 0.7 children per woman, which is the lowest facility rate in the world.

And that means obviously that on average, Korean women are having less than one child each.

For very valid reasons, I might add, considering the economic and cultural conditions in that country.

Now, I don't live in Eastern Europe or Southern Europe or East Asia.

I live in the Caribbean.

I live in Trinidad and Tobago.

But speaking anecdotally, at least, which obviously is not representative of the full picture, I can count maybe on one hand the number of people I know my age who think that they'll be able to bring children into the world, whether they want to or not.

You know, very few people I know actually want children, or if they do want children, they don't think they'll be able to afford to have children.

But maybe that's their selfishness.

What do you think?

I mean, I don't know.

Like, I am not interacting with a representative sample of the population.

But no, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of people who are like, no, and it's too expensive.

It sucks.

I don't want to deal with this.

But again, like, not a representative sample.