With exceptions in cases like when a couple loses a child

Edit: in a scenario where everything is good. No wars, no famine.

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    The current trend on world population has us hitting 10.3 billion in 2080, and then it starts to recede. The idea of an overpopulated world comes from a book written in 1968 called “The Population Bomb”. The actual problem we’re facing in the west is a rapidly aging population, and birth rates that are falling off a cliff.

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971

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      There’s no such thing as rapidly aging, there’s exactly one year per year, we don’t age any faster nor slower. Declining birth rate, sure, but no such thing as rapidly aging.

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        The total population will be rapidly aging; I.e. a larger portion of that population will be over 65