POPULATION DECLINE HEADLINES
Muslims Fastest Growing Population to Soon Equal Christians
The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths. Over the next four decades, Christians will remain the largest religious group, but Islam will grow faster than any other major religion. If current trends continue, by 2050 …
US Women Not Having Enough Babies to Replace Population
Fertility rates in 2017 were 16% BELOW numbers necessary to replace the population. Economic concerns, careers and education are determining factors.
China’s Looming Crisis:
A Shrinking Population
Chinese academics recently delivered a stark warning to the country’s leaders: China is facing its most precipitous decline in population in decades, setting the stage for potential demographic, economic and even political crises in the near future.
Japan’s Childbirth Below Replacement Threshold
Japan’s population began to decline in 2011. Japan’s total fertility rate (the number of children born to each woman in her lifetime) has been below the replacement threshold of 2.1 since 1974 and reached a historic low of 1.26 in 2005.
Russia’s Demographic “Crisis”
The Russian fertility rate has declined to among the world’s lowest, while its abortion rate is the highest. As a result, for the first time in Russian history, the annual number of deaths has exceeded the number of births
Europe’s Birth Rates Can’t Sustain Population
The average birth rate in the European Union is 1.6, well below the 2.1 live births per woman needed to sustain a population, and the global average of 2.4. Coupled with aging societies, consequences include villages with only a handful of people left; no staff to care for the elderly; a dwindling labor force to sustain economic growth.
NY PASSES THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTION LAW
Third-trimester abortion will be allowed under the new law when a preborn child is diagnosed with a condition that will cause him or her to die at or shortly after birth. In addition, the new law removes protections for babies born alive after an abortion — meaning they could be left to die after birth — by rescinding a portion of NY’s public health law
U.S. Abortions 1970 – 2015
45,789,558
Abortions in 2015 – 638,169
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:13
“If anyone causes one of these little ones–those who believe in me–to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Matthew 18:6