The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/02/what-happens-when-deaths-outnumber-births
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The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/may/02/what-happens-when-deaths-outnumber-births
Posted by Remarkable_Peak9518
18 Comments
The population drops, it isn’t exactly complicated.
What this article is about is dealing with an aging population.
Panic in the media until the next big “World ends tomoy” scare.
I think we will hit a precipice in the western world where an aging population will become dependent on immigration to care for our elders. Even more than it currently is.
We need to be focusing on quality over quantity. We cannot afford so many people who take out more than they pay in, otherwise the inevitable outcome is managed decline and far worse than what we’re seeing now.
I don’t understand why this is such an emergency. If the population drops, that means housing can get cheaper, and our younger people won’t feel such negative impact from AI taking some jobs.
Companies don’t need constant increasing growth rates to succeed, they just need the all in growth rate number to be positive over time.
Worth noting even pronatalist countries have not been able to turn this around, tax cuts, increased child benefits, restrictions on abortion have not made much difference to the birth rate
Bit of a nothing article. There’s no information in it that people on here wouldn’t have read before.
I haven’t watched The Tipping Point in a while, when did it get so heavy
Houses come back on the market
Junior staff will actually get some promotion opportunities/forced better wages to attract applicants
Burden on services…particularly emergency ones… Drop
Retirees less likely to afford their second homes in Spain…. Idk 🤷♀️
Edit to say *eventually* if the trend continues and rebalances.
Deep recession or depression…. our whole economy is based on growth and the less people you have earning and paying taxes means there’s far less money for public services.
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The funny thing is working people voting for the likes of reform.
What your gonna end up with is him saying… We need to tax you more so pensioners can carry of with their comfy lifestyle and triple lock pension. But we are also gonna have to raise the pension age well above what it is for YOU.
House price drop?
Hahaha who am I kidding. Money printer only goes one way.
The population in the UK is already too high and it will naturally decrease now the baby boomers are reaching the end of their lives. It is not a bad thing. Human populations cannot be reasonably expected to increase forever.
There’s a huge crisis coming.
A large percentage of people who have no ever owned a house and have no pension. All we are seeing is increase of average age. More people with less ability to pay for care.
Birth rate trends always seem to be over-optimistic. I notice the chart in this article shows that birth rates are going to stop declining and flatten out where they currently are. My guess would be that we still have a bit to go before we hit the floor.
Housing becomes affordable unemployment goes down people start having babies again and we repeat the cycle
Well goodness, if there arent any more pesky people having pesky babies, then those at the top won’t have anyone to trickle down the wealth too. And you know, with wonderful machines that have no emotions, life, family or health, well they can plug those gaps until we change how things work. Oh, and those computer chips for our brain’s, cryogenics and of course that guy who is desperate to find an Elixir for Life – he’ll be ok, because you know he will sell it to his mates at the top. So yeah, it will be just fine!
This gun was pulled years ago, the peeps at the top must be smiling with glee.