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Drawn from what Noah Smith said
demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.
Given the timing and the microeconomic evidence, smartphones are the likeliest explanation for why instead of leveling out near 2, the total fertility rate in rich countries — and, increasingly, in middle-income countries — has busted right through that floor and headed down toward zero.
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