{"id":90374,"date":"2025-08-31T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90374"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:07:02","slug":"should-we-panic-about-plummeting-birthrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/should-we-panic-about-plummeting-birthrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we panic about plummeting birthrates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k6LFdYDtsUiuksDKl4U\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nIn a special edition marking the start of a new season, we dive into an issue increasingly alarming governments around the world: a global decline in birthrates. A recent joint study by UNFPA and YouGov \u2014 spanning 14 countries and covering 37 percent of the world\u2019s population \u2014 reveals a stark trend: fertility rates have dropped below 2.1 births per woman in over half of the nations surveyed. That&#8217;s the critical threshold needed to maintain population levels without immigration.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a special edition marking the start of a new season, we dive into an issue increasingly alarming governments around the world: a global decline in birthrates. A recent joint study by UNFPA and YouGov \u2014 spanning 14 countries and covering 37 percent of the world\u2019s population \u2014 reveals a stark trend: fertility rates have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[32137,38256],"class_list":["post-90374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-birth-rates","tag-plummeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90376,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90374\/revisions\/90376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}