The demographics and fertility series is the result of several months in 2024 of reading and researching the trends and factors influencing fertility with a “zoom out” approach. That is to say looking at the world at large, rather than the minuscule context of a few countries in Europe and North America.
Sources for episode 1:
Anti-natalism – https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/#SH1f
The Hypothetical Consent Objection to Anti-Natalism – https://www.jstor.org/stable/45116533
Canada’s gender ratio shifts as male immigration surges – https://www.firstpost.com/world/canadas-gender-ratio-shifts-as-male-immigration-surges-13732682.html
5 ways you are being lied to with statistics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VTIaXF74A
Population and population change statistics – https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Population_and_population_change_statistics
Population Challenges for Bangladesh in the Coming Decades – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740702/
Number of births in Spain in 2023, by month – https://www.statista.com/statistics/449593/number-of-births-in-spain-by-month/
At least 166 million children globally remain unrecorded – https://africa.cgtn.com/at-least-166-million-children-globally-remain-unrecorded/
Over 3 million of unregistered children in Angola – https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/451956912/over-3-million-of-unregistered-children-in-angola
Nearly 40 pct of global births are unregistered-WHO – https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/nearly-40-pct-of-global-births-are-unregistered-who-idUSL24735756/
Born without a birth certificate, a lifelong struggle for some in the South – https://www.wtoc.com/2021/04/21/born-without-birth-certificate-lifelong-struggle-some-south/
Alarm raised over huge number of Indigenous children without birth certificates – https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/19/queensland-indigenous-children-no-birth-certificate
Copiii invizibili ai României – https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/educatie/copiii-invizibili-ai-romaniei-484010
The construction of a right to birth registration in European human rights law: the case of G.T.B. v Spain – https://strasbourgobservers.com/2024/02/23/the-construction-of-a-right-to-birth-registration-in-european-human-rights-law-the-case-of-g-t-b-v-spain/
Global Family Structure – https://sustaindemographicdividend.org/articles/international-family-indicators/global-family-structure
Germany finds population less than previously thought – https://www.dw.com/en/germany-finds-population-less-than-previously-thought/a-69463504
Localitățile din România în care de 3 ani nu s-a mai născut niciun copil – https://hotnews.ro/localitatile-din-romania-in-care-de-3-ani-nu-s-a-mai-nascut-niciun-copil-1743337
Byråkrati slår mot svenska barn utomlands – https://www.sviv.se/blog/2022/05/byrakrati-slar-mot-svenska-barn-utomlands/
Svenskarna har inte fött så få barn sedan mätningarna började år 1749 – https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/svenskarna-har-inte-fott-sa-fa-barn-sedan-matningarna-borjade-ar-1749
“Demographic inertia predicts that despite vigorous hiring, many years will be needed to allow for retiring men to be replaced by women” – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619263/
Росстат предупредил об угрозе сокращения населения России до уровней XIX века – https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/01/09/rosstat-predupredil-obugroze-sokrascheniya-naseleniya-rossii-dourovnei-xix-veka-a117955
Hungarian natural demographic decline highest in Europe – https://dailynewshungary.com/hungarian-demographic-decline-highest-europe/
Hungary total live births – https://www.statista.com/statistics/1261254/hungary-number-of-live-births/
TFR Hungary – https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?contextual=default&locations=HU
Fertility control in ancient Rome – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567737/
Total fertility rate in France from 1800 to 2020 – https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033137/fertility-rate-france-1800-2020/
Why were the French first to have fewer children? Secularisation – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/05/why-was-france-the-first-to-have-kids-secularisation
Sustained and Universal Fertility Recuperation in Kazakhstan – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10344851/#:~:text=The%20Total%20Fertility%20Rate%20
Data on Iran – https://datacommons.org/place/country/IRN?utm_medium=explore&mprop=fertilityRate&popt=Person&cpv=gender,Female&hl=en#
Sources for episode 2:
Pro-natalist weirdo – https://x.com/quantian1/status/1780105158644429136
Natalist thread – https://x.com/rokwon/status/1782401451761037651
The Parents Who Regret Having Children – https://time.com/6966914/parental-regret-children-ro-kwon-essay/
Most children are happy no matter what, but materialism catches up eventually – https://qz.com/405960/most-children-are-happy-no-matter-what-but-materialism-catches-up-eventually
Hilariously wrong take – https://x.com/MoreBirths/status/1787926538538680514
How We Subsidize Suburbia – https://www.theamericanconservative.com/we-have-always-subsidized-suburbia/
The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population – https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-conference-austin-00150338
Tyranny of small decisions – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_small_decisions
People say you’ll know – but will I regret not having children? – https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2023/nov/20/decide-not-have-kids-regret-parenting
Why are today’s young people ambivalent about having kids? – https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/18/what-kids-for-pollitt-book-review/
Publicus: Az emberek többsége szerint az anyagi bizonytalanság miatt születik egyre kevesebb gyerek Magyarországon – https://nepszava.hu/3247382_publicus-felmeres-demografia-gyermekvallalas-ksh-eletszinvonal
Children’s Risk of Suicide Increases on School Days – https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/childrens-risk-of-suicide-increases-on-school-days/
Compulsory education in Europe 2022/2023[PDF] – https://eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu/media/2837/download
Compulsory education in 38 countries of Europe – https://www.researchgate.net/figure/duration-of-Compulsory-school-education-in-38-european-Countries_tbl2_334654940
The terminally online and prolonged adolescence – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXu6g9DUNSM
Most of my childhood is now illegal – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlzuI_8lizw
A California city filled its skate park with sand to deter skateboarders. Then the dirt bikes showed up. – https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/22/us/skate-park-sand-venice-san-clemente-trnd/index.html
‘I was scared’: 17-year-old fined for shooting hoops – https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/compliants-fines-parks-covid-19-1.5537814
Incident şocant în Brăila. Un jandarm lovește un tânăr care ieșise la plimbare cu bicicleta – https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/incident-socant-in-braila-un-jandarm-loveste-un-tanar-care-iesise-la-plimbare-cu-bicicleta-2942538
Sources for episode 3:
The Household in Medieval Europe – https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/A6952188#back1
Size and structure of the household in England over three centuries – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22077606/
Un secol de statistică – https://insse.ro/cms/files/evenimente/RoCentenar/ROCentenar.pdf
Evoluția natalității și fertilității – https://insse.ro/cms/files/publicatii/Evolutia%20natalitatii%20si%20fertilitatii%20in%20Romania_n.pdf
Why Some Places Have More Baby Girls than Boys – https://www.labroots.com/trending/genetics-and-genomics/15368/baby-girls-boys
‘The last generation’: the young Chinese people vowing not to have children – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/20/the-last-generation-young-chinese-people-vow-not-to-have-children
Do it for Denmark – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_for_Denmark
Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev will baptize every fifth child in Orthodox families – http://arhiva.spc.rs/eng/metropolitan_onuphry_kiev_will_baptize_every_fifth_child_orthodox_families.html
Czechs approve raising retirement age to help future budgets – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-approve-raising-retirement-age-help-future-budgets-2024-04-30/
The favorable regime on foreign pensions in Portugal has just ended – https://www.studiobcz.it/en/the-favorable-regime-on-foreign-pensions-in-portugal-has-just-ended/
«Ведомости»: жители РФ с начала 2024 года потратили рекордную сумму на средства контрацепции – https://meduza.io/news/2024/08/23/vedomosti-zhiteli-rf-s-nachala-2024-goda-potratili-rekordnuyu-summu-na-sredstva-kontratseptsii
Extra help for students with children – https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/extra-help-students-children
Gay couple sues New York leaders over denial of IVF benefits in landmark case – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/new-york-ivf-benefits-discrimination-lawsuit
Art supporting sexual diversity – https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/91687-art-supporting-sexual-diversity