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Source: The Sunday Times; Feb 2, 2003
UN Report Will Show Population Decline,
Not Overpopulation
New York, NY -- A United Nations report due to be released later
this month warns that the world will soon be in a dangerous situation
of overall population decline. Far from the population controllers
predictions that the world will be completely overpopulated, the
UN demographers warn that the decline in fertility rate shows no
indication of stopping at 2.1 - the replacement rate.
"All the evidence suggests fertility is falling rapidly in developing
countries with no sign it is going to stop at the magical number
of two," said Larry Heligman of the UN population division.
The UN report warns that the average fertility rate will decline
to 1.85 - dangerously lower than the replacement rate - by 2050.
The Sunday Times which provided a sneak preview at the report notes
that Thailand's fertility rate went from 5 in the 1970s to just
under 2 today. In Iran the rate has gone from 6.5 children
in the 1980s to 2.75 today. While the current world average
for women bearing children is 2.7, in the West the average is much
lower with countries such as Italy at 1.2 children per woman.
Jacqueline Kasun, a researcher who has warned for years about the
coming population decline and the erroneous predictions of those
espousing overpopulation, warned that that crunch will be felt in
attempting to care for the elderly with few earners to support welfare
and pension systems.
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