UK fertility rates fall to historic lows despite slight rise in births
The Guardian - 27-Aug-2025Record-low fertility raises concerns over ageing population and economic stability
Overpopulation
A common concern about life extension is that we would rapidly overrun the planet, and without management, this could happen. Although, it's interesting to note that population increase is driven by fertility not lifespan, for example, Japan has the highest life expectancy in world, but is expecting population crash.
However, we will have a lot of time to come up with a solution - the population won't double overnight, it might take a 100 years or so, and it's impossible to imagine what technologies may have been developed by then to help.
According to David Wood of London Futurists if death stopped tomorrow it
would take a hundred years to double the planet's
See also: Space Colonization
Overpopulation News
Italy’s population decline is closing schools and stressing families
BBC - 19-Jul-2025Immigration is helping industries, but not solving school enrollment drops
UK could become Europe's most populated country by 2100
Business Standard - 16-Jul-2025Experts want a new office to track and plan for future population changes
South Korea faces alarming 85% population decline by 2125, study warns
Korea Herald - 02-Jul-2025Shrinking birth rates and economic pressures could leave Korea with just 7.5M people in 100 years
Overpopulation Resources
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The Population Bomb
Book that warned of the perils of overpopulation: mass starvation, societal upheaval, environmental deterioration, written by Paul Ehrlich
Superabundance
The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet written by Marian Tupy
Irreplaceable: Adapting to lower birth rates and longer lives
29-Apr-2025
Lunchtime webinar organised by International Longevity Centre UK and supported by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
07-Jul-2015
Longevity and coping with an ever increasing population
Replace the defence budget with a space colonisation budget and everyone board can be shipped off planet
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