2023 US Birth Rate Drops 3% From 2022, Hits Record Low

So What is Going on in the Rest of the World?

I’ve been pondering the depopulation agenda from the perspective of why they hate us so much. I think most people aspire to be loved and to have a family. So why is so much official effort put into breaking it up or preventing its formation?

Nature has a way of self correcting. The baby boom in the US during the 1940’s-1960’s came about due to the birth dearth of the Great Depression and World War II. People got tired of burying their dead and wanted to start a family and see children’s faces and hope for the future. Then with so many youngsters around there was a birth dearth during the 1970’s in America with no top down state intervention.

Globally officials went into overdrive to convince people that there were too many people to feed. The money flowed to those countries that complied with population reduction and control efforts. The official talking point for 50 years has been that having less children or none at all is a good thing. Cutting off your family line shows you care about others!

Zerohedge just ran an article regarding the USA having record low birth rates in 2023. I began this substack with a focus on dropping birth rates so I will circle back sometimes. The provisional data was released by the CDC some months ago, showing the lowest levels of births in the US since 1979 (when the population was much lower).

The rate was 56 births per 1,000 females (of childbearing age) in 2022 and 56.3 births per 1,000 females in 2021.

There’s a big difference in the statistics depending on if the result cited is births per 1000 people, births per 1000 women of childbearing age, or total births.

When asked by The Epoch Times why its experts believe the fertility rate has dropped so low, the CDC declined to answer.

The number of births also dropped from 3.66 million in 2022 to 3.59 million in 2023, according to the report. That’s the lowest number since 1979.

The peak was in 2007, when 4.3 million births were recorded.

A recent survey from the Pew Research Center found that many adults who are childless say they will not ever have children, with reasons including just not wanting to, desiring to focus on other parts of life such as careers, and inability to afford the cost of raising children.

I am calling BS on the official “It was all personal choices” narrative. There has been a steady drop in the number of abortions for several decades as well. These are presumably unwanted pregnancies, but what it indicates is that women just aren’t getting knocked up as much as they used to be. Infertility is definitely playing a role in the lower birth rates. Testosterone rates in men in developed countries are half of what they were 50 years ago. They’ve been poisoning people through pharmaceuticals, vaccines and chemicals in the air, water, food and personal care products for decades. And then along came the Covid jabs to push everything over a cliff.

The narrative has been that there are too many people in the world and they’re screwing things up for the rest of us for a long time. Because of this a lot of funding has gone to drumming up statistics showing catastrophic population explosions which will only get worse exponentially if they don’t get more money to stop it. Parsing the statistics can be difficult because some is based on projections which are usually based on false assumptions. I find birth rate projections almost uniformly bias towards there being more births than actually happened in the recent past.

So what’s going on in the world especially since the Covid jab rollout? It’s bad, or good I guess if you’re a eugenicist.

I can make some points about the data I do see:

1. The birth statistics seem to vary widely from one dataset to the next. One says Thailand had a 2023 birth rate of around 11 per 1000 people while another claims that Thailand had a birth rate of 6.89 per 1000 people. This gives me a range between 480,000 and 715,000 babies born in Thailand in 2023 assuming a population of about 65 million. That’s a lot of babies to not be counted one way or the other. If the crude birth rate registrations data is accurate (there probably will be some upward adjustments for late registrations), then 517,400 babies were born in Thailand in 2023, on the lower side of those two guesses.

   By 2074 Thailand’s Population Will Fall to 30 Million Based on a Current Birth Rate Which is still Falling.

2. So I have been using a variety of ways to calculate this, a triangulation method Steve Kirsh used to assess Covid jab damages. I decided to look up the birth rates news stories in several countries. The words “Record Low” come up a lot. Here’s a sampling:

   China’s Population Drops for Second Year, With Record Low Birth Rates

   Hungary Offered 30,000 to Couples Having 3 Kids, But it’s Birth Rate Has Fallen to a Record Monthly Low

   Italian Birth Rate in Decline for 15th Straight Year

   Birth Rate in Rich Countries Halve to Hit Record Low

3. Here’s some charts. I decided to jump to Our World in Data and pick every country on their list that began with the letter H. Don’t accuse me of cherry picking here!

   

   

   I wanted to use this birth and death chart from Cambodia to show a dilema for the slave masters. During times of genocide, as happened during the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970’s, the death rate spikes in this case during the high year to 80 deaths per 1000 population, so 8% of everybody died (the total population lost during this brutal reign of terror was around 25%). The birth rate predictably nosedives, but afterwards there is a sharp spike up to a higher baseline. Similar things have happened in many genocided regions including China following on from its disastrous Great Leap Forward famines. People tire of death and want a future. In short war is not as good for depopulation as it is made out to be.

The reasons for this are many, but one simple one is that people who go through depopulation events do not assume that all of their children will live to adulthood and beyond, so they therefore want to make more of them once the crisis has passed. So the messaging shifted to having one or two well coddled children once you are financially ready (you’ll never be financially ready). This pushed births onto older cohorts of women, who do have less of them. Keeping wages perpetually suppressed for working classes did do a lot of damage to the fertility rate as well. But murdering the world is hard work.

So could an omnicrisis of global perpetual war, economic uncertainty and poisoning do the depopulation trick? It seems to be working thus far. In many countries birth rates are dropping in a step down fashion since 2020. There are a few very modest rebounds in 2021 in some places, which makes sense considering the catastrophic closing of the world in 2020. But I have not yet found a single country, including in Africa, where births are showing any type of meaningful rising trend. Perhaps there are too many souls here and not in the ether. The real data looks nothing like Bill Gates weird projections about the year 2100. I wonder if there will be any people left in the year 2100.

That said I have to put my faith in God. So is a rebound coming as so often happens? People are foregoing children everywhere whether by choice or chance. Is this the beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning?

Artwork for the day is my watercolor of the sunset at Nai Yang beach. Watercolors were my first favorite painting medium and I am so glad I picked them up again. They’re so much easier and faster for me than oil based paints to use. I’m planning to try painting a few memes in the style of Bob Moran perhaps (he uses watercolor inks). But I’ll save that project for tomorrow.

PS: I will always use the terms woman, women, girls (if age appropriate) or females when referring to those who give birth to children. There has never been a true XY only chromosome human who became pregnant or gave birth.

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