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Once deaths outnumber births the low birthrate crisis is far advanced. That usually means the fertility rate has been below replacement continuously for many decades.
Most of Europe and East Asia have already reached that stage and will begin to decline quickly now.
Where are more people dying than being born?
For most of human history, more people were born each year than died. Populations grew very slowly for most of this history, then rapidly in recent centuries, as child mortality plummeted and people lived longer.
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