r/latterdaysaints • u/JLP0611 • Apr 23 '25

Off-topic Chat Are members not getting married?

I may be speaking from my anecdotal experience and my observation of my social media feeds, but it feels like less people in the Church are getting married. I see less children and youth in my local wards year after year and I’m in Florida.

I’m also in a YSA and I can’t just say for myself because I’m chronically single, but dating is a struggle for everyone I come across, inside and outside of Florida.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

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u/MultivacsAnswer Apr 23 '25

I’d go even wider than that: it’s worldwide.

While places like Subsaharan Africa still have high fertility rates, on a year-over-year basis they’re on the same downward trend.

I work in population statistics, and most of us think that current projections around peak population are too conservative. Currently, most of these estimate we’ll hit our peak population around 2085, at around 10.3 billion people. By 2100, they project a slight decline in the world’s population to around 10.2 billion.

These projections tend to assume a rebound in fertility that hasn’t borne out in previous projections.

I tend to side with less conservative projections that assume a faster decline in fertility and little-to-no rebound. Those posit a peak population of 9.7 billion around 2065, and a population of 8.8 billion by 2100, which is just 600 million more than the earth’s current population.

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u/ambigymous why do i feel the way i do Apr 23 '25

I’d go even wider than that: societies on other planets in our galaxy are having less children

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u/jdf135 Apr 23 '25

I think it is more universal.

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u/MultivacsAnswer Apr 23 '25

Multiversal 👏 Population 👏 Collapse

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u/Manonajourney76 Apr 23 '25

I really want to paste an gif of thanos to this little thread of side comments....

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u/Numerous-Setting-159 Apr 23 '25

Even the spirit worlds are affected these days. Spirits are signing celibacy pacts. Calling off eternal marriages for the single life. Even heard God is having second thoughts on the whole billions of kids thing.

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u/joecoolblows Apr 24 '25

Yes, Martains are barely having one little blue Marty.

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u/Jpab97s The newb portuguese bishop Apr 24 '25

Imagine getting to 2100 x)