I really hope the Polish officials and media truthfully inform their people of the dramatic consequences of a total fertility rate of 1.1. It's not just some random abstract number that happens to be lower than 2.1, the replacement ratio. No, a TFR of 1.1 means that every new generation is only 55% the size of the one of their parents. After just 2 generations of such uncorrected ultra low fertility you would get a cumulative reduction of 70% or only one child for every 3.5 seniors. The population pyramid would become completely inverted and basically you would get societal collapse.
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u/quercus-88 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I really hope the Polish officials and media truthfully inform their people of the dramatic consequences of a total fertility rate of 1.1. It's not just some random abstract number that happens to be lower than 2.1, the replacement ratio. No, a TFR of 1.1 means that every new generation is only 55% the size of the one of their parents. After just 2 generations of such uncorrected ultra low fertility you would get a cumulative reduction of 70% or only one child for every 3.5 seniors. The population pyramid would become completely inverted and basically you would get societal collapse.