www.americasquarterly.org/article/latin-americas-fertility-decline-is-accelerating-no-ones-sure-why/
It was always declining quite low, but according to this article it's begun accelerating. 🥳🎉
The old saying, to stop a flood, get rid of the source. South America is rapidly running out of Hispanics to send to America.
Most notably, Brazil is now losing population, they lost 5 million to birth/death discrepancy last year, they weren't predicted to start losing population for several decades.
Excerpt Gems:
“Consider that total births in the United States, which has also seen a sustained reduction in fertility, dipped by 7% between 2013 and 2022. Within the same period, births fell between 10% and 34% in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries that account for two-thirds of the region’s total population.”
“Among demographers, 2023 will be remembered as the year Brazil “shrank” by almost 5 million people. A new census put the country’s population at 203 million people—well below the 208 million previously estimated by Brazil’s national statistics institute, and even further from the 216 million calculated by the United Nations. Those missing people didn’t vanish or emigrate—they were never born.”
In a recent paper entitled “The Great Decline,” Wanda Cabella and three other Uruguayan demographers write that “in just seven years, the total fertility rate [in Uruguay] dropped from 2.0 to 1.27 children per woman… there is no precedent for a fall of this magnitude in such a short period.”
...government programs have begun to offer a variety of free or low-cost contraceptives to women who could previously not afford them. In Argentina and Uruguay, these programs include subdermal contraceptive implants that last up to five years. Rofman says the rapid adoption of these and other contraceptives contributed to a 55% drop in pregnancies to Argentine women age 20 and younger.
Before it's misconstrued, most South Americans are Nons, and those who are White down there, could already afford contraceptives. These government programs to cover the cost of contraceptives merely give the Nons down there universal access as well.
The largest decline in South American fertility is the Nons, and that's a good thing.
