
Goodbye Baby Boom—Hello Population Bust: How a 60% Drop Could Change Everything (#257)
From 3 Takeaways™
Published 7/8/2025
Global birth rates are collapsing—sometimes to half the level needed to keep populations stable. UT-Austin’s Michael Geruso explains how that trend could shrink the world’s population from eight billion to three billion in just three generations. He unpacks the silent drivers behind falling…


