Why fertility rate is so low in 2026, all over the world, and why it's keep getting lower?

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BCRanger10 · Accepted Answer

Problem #1 is easily feminism. Feminism told girls to get on birth control in their mid to late teens and stay on it throughout the time in their life when they are at their most attractive and fertile. On top of that, they were told to go out and get big high-stress corporate jobs, which also has an effect on their fertility. And it told them to wait until their late 20s and early 30s to think about marriage, all the while being loaded with all sorts of propaganda, whether subtle or overt, about men being trash. And no matter how you spin it, a core element of feminism has always on the natural level been resentment of men, or at least a mistrust of them.

Basically, it's told them that the most beautiful and magnificent part about them, that being their ability to grow and feed a human life with their bodies, and having a significant role in the moral formation of a child...of the next generation... is somehow a burden or that it's not prestigious or that it doesn't contribute to society in a significant way.

And because of all that, men and women hate each other and are arguably less equal now than before feminism.

That's one reason.

Another is we are a very distracted culture. We're glued to our phones and binge watching shows on streaming platforms. We've got music going all the time. We don't spend anywhere near enough time in silence to reflect on who we are, why we're doing what we're doing, or what we want out of life and why.

And third, probably because of how our food is made, what it's made with, and even to a degree, how it's packaged. How much plastic do you think is in the average person's reproductive system?

AviatorTom · Accepted Answer

Feminism, especially in First World countries, has changed the roles of women. Previously, a woman's main role was to have and care for children. Now, many women prefer a career.

Sexuality has also changed. Previously, same-sex relationships were rare. Now, they are much more common. Same-sex relationships cannot produce offspring.

katiesmuff · Accepted Answer

It's because in modern civilized societies today women have removed themselves from the old barefoot and pregnant theme and have slowed down on casual sex, have become more insistent on protected sex by either the male or her using pills or devices. Also young women are finding many more great opportunities for super careers and opt for that instead of just being a wife and mom.

We do still have areas where women are having many more kids than they should as they have no way to support them, no male in the picture after the pregnancy for help and quickly become a taxpayer burden on us.

Basically losing the right to have an abortion has also changed the female mind about sex and many either hold off or go same sex relationships finding out they aren't so bad and continue for life without ever popping out a kid.

Screenwriter · Accepted Answer

Birth rate can now be a choice and having and raising children is labor intensive and costly. 100 years ago it was still labor intensive, but you had children to help at home and on farms and with chores.

With people not staying near parents and grandparents the costs have gone up for parents to raise children. Having more than one or two children is not practical Also divorce was uncommon except among the very wealthy. It's difficult to co parent four children between two households.

It's not that women have fabulous career choices. But being a homebound parent is just one of several choices, when before there was no choice at all.

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

Attitudes have changed. In the 1950's building a family was sometimes left to chance, The advent of birth control pills in the late 60's gave individuals a choice to conceive or not. Due to the economic ease of post Korean war life. Families were willing to conceive because all you had to do is show up for work every day, do what youjr supervisor said and your continued employment was guaranteed. Someone making Minimum wage, Got health insurance and life insurance, and raises based on performance. Prior to 1980 divorces happened but not frequently. The ME generation occurred and the move away from anything that did not benefit self directly followed. Marriages stopped being a team effort and developed into something akin to Separate but Living Together. Individual Checking Accounts developed and trust plummeted. Having Children became a Huge risk. The likelihood of a couple staying together was nill. Child Support destroyed many lives. Extramarital affairs soared. Women came into their own around 1990. It was easier to have a child and support it yourself than to risk a marriage and all the legal complications associated with a divorce. Since outside affairs were a given, it usually caused tempers to flair, which when witnessed by the children, caused mental problems which we are witnessing today. No one wants a relationship like Mom and Dads. So many of our children avoid it by choosing an alternate lifestyle that produces not kids.

Once children were seen as a blessing, now they are seen as a burden.

MikeMcMansion · Answer

First, they let just any old drunk vote, then they just stopped actually counting votes honestly. They knew that you knew it was a bad idea, dumb politicians and their dire consequences can just be blamed on a dumb voting block. Therefore they’ve just been choosing puppet politicians and throw us propaganda.

Now, more recently, disneyization (the 90% chase the top 10 - chronically single alpha widows - the paradox of choice women are overwhelmed by the illusion of infinite possibilities), birth control, the cc, multi-generational fatherlessness, welfare, DEI, social media/online dating, smart phones, video games, and easily accessible free porn.

And finally, why? We are living in an era experiencing a profound existential crisis. If we are all here by accident then why bring kids into this giant accident that is currently in an ever increasingly violent ideological global war? The young are rejecting the philosophies religions and cultures of their forefathers for the black pills of nihilism and narcissism.

Oh, and they still haven’t made family court any better for dads yet, except in Kentucky.

ohsheeT · Answer

Because the world , our futures unstable , nobody knows where we're going or headed to everybody , has the feelng of unsureness  And when this happens, we're not in control of our destiny, we're under the thumb of our great leaders. (FUCK THEM) not great they are greedy evil leaders. 
 It's a manipulation. That went wrong. And people are waking up and are saying Iwill suffer i will sacrifice.
My happiness , by not bringing a child into this world. So they can use them and destroy them like they are doing to us

ManOnFire · Answer

Women want casual sex without getting casual kids. But also because people are more conscientious about having them in today's increasingly dark and hectic world. They don't want to be like their moms and dads or grandparents who had kids and then messed them up.

Having kids is also more costly. Most of today's generation are still trying to figure out where they're really going in their lives or trying to reach a more stable place where they can enjoy life, not have to think about raising kids when they're still trying to raise themselves.

Nikki1989 · Answer

Social and lifestyle changes, economic pressures, and environmental changes are all contributing factors. Without major policy changes like affordable childcare, housing reform, and work-life balance improvements, fertility rates will continue to fall.

madhatters4 · Answer

i feel like people have somehow tied up social issues with scientific issues

feminism has not reduced fertility. the statement alone, a personal belief system someone has leads to reduced fertility should make our heads explode

there's a lot of things out there... I've read a lot recently that the introduction of plastics and microplastics is believed to have a lot to do with it. plastics have toxic materials in them. our food is stored and packaged in plastic. microplastics can get into our foods so we can literally be consuming toxins

also the rise of super processed foods has been attributed to lowered fertility rates.

it should also be noted that by in large fertility issues typically stem from the male rather than the female. the rate of sperm production in the average male today is exponentially lower than the rates of sperm production and thus sperm county 20-30 years ago.

Grond21 · Answer

Multiple reasons.

Number one, it's a natural result of urbanization. People just tend to have less kids when a culture urbanizes.

Number two, people are less likely to view children as a benefit and more likely to view them as a burden. They try less hard.

Number three, a lot of the kids that are conceived get aborted. In New York, the most dangerous place for a black person is in his own mother's womb, because the black rate of abortion is so high. A third of the entire Generation Z is missing.

Number four, people make it hard to conceive because of birth control. It's become the standard to only have kids when you plan for it. But because we cannot force it to happen, it doesn't happen as often.

Number five, the hormone disrupting effects of so many of our products that we eat and put on our skin reduce fertility and increase genetic mutation.

If you put all those together and it's a cocktail for drastic birth rate loss.

OneViewpoint · Answer

Well...

A population of 8.3 billion people is straining the planet's resources.
Wealth inequality has destroyed the quality of life in developed nations. It's time for another revolt against the rich pigs. People who are buried in debt with nothing to look forward to other than a shitty job for life are not generally optimistic about taking on the task of raising a family against terrible odds and a mountain of risk.
The internet has destroyed social networks and enabled the worst human instincts of people who can hide behind a keyboard. People feel isolated rather than connected at a macro and personal level. The internet has spawned both toxic feminism and Red Pill Incel culture.

Like rats, humans have begun destroying themselves with success and overpopulation. The good old days of growing our way out of our problems are over.

XXblack88 · Answer

Cause the cost to rise kids from day they're born to 18 years old is too expensive and we are being nickel and dim everywhere we turn. a lot of people want to have kids later in life these days. And if you have a kid who has special needs it's even more costly. there probably more reasons that I'm not sure about.

Lliam · Answer

A lot of people got the Covid jabs that cause miscarriages and sterility.

But a lot of people may be deliberately refraining from having kids due to the cost of living and the state of the world. My wife and I did.
I feel sorry for kids growing up these days.

Kelley1 · Answer

The controls put on people by governments and our hidden masters who rule governments, such as vaccines and the push for genetically modified food, with the manufacturers, in effect, supported by governments.

pierre7i · Answer

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exitseven · Answer

I think it is due to some environmental factor, perhaps food additives or excessive vaccines. And also societal issues. people are marrying later in life and are not having children as fast as in the past. Some elect not to have children at all. Families with 5 or 6 kids were commonplace in the 60s and 70s but they are rare in todays world except for welfare recipients who get more money from the government the more kids that they have. It is reverse Darwinism.

Anonymous · Answer

a lot of young women would rather get a tattoo and have sex than get pregnant these days it seems , some also want to wait till they get older thing is women often aren't as attractive when they get older so it can be harder to find a partner than when they were 19 and crazy good looking , not that older women aren't still attractive just not as easy to generate interest as it was when younger and they had bigger social circles and more options

WonderingManII · Answer

I asked Google cause I don't know.

Global fertility rates in 2026 are at historic lows, driven by severe economic pressures, rising costs of child-rearing, increased female empowerment/education, and environmental anxiety. This trend is continuing due to changing societal norms, reduced desire for large families, and a widening gap between the desire for children and the financial/structural ability to support them.

NathanDavis · Answer

because 8 billion is more than enough...

Crankor · Answer

A few main reasons. There are no incentives to having kids these days other than a tax credit, couple dont know how to raise kids or where to put their priorities which end up in a divorce when then over generations that becomes the expected outcome, Relationships themselves are nothing like they should be. Too much negative media influence which effects the dynamic of the relationship that also effects ones desire to even have kids.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Most people are so busy with managing life and work that they rarely calm down enough for any meaningful lovemaking (procreation). 🤔🤷‍♂️

RavVid · Answer

When it is a coin toss of divorce in 8 years if I marry and have 1.8 kiddies,  why am I going to do that? The answer is that, as I am sentient,  I am not .

jshm2 · Answer

It isn't.  Fertility rates are lower only in Western countries. Mainly due to poor diet, poor cultural values, and lack of family orientation.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Perhaps we are doing a better job of making contraception readily available. And, at least in the US, people are waiting later to get married.

LiamJHayden · Answer

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks it is by design by the powers that be. They more or less control the food chain, so slipping certain compounds into it in order to damage sperm production should not be too difficult.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

We have 8 billion plus people in the world and growing. Fertility rates are still high very high. Tomorrow literally can disappear 25 million people in the U. S and it won't be noticeable at all.

SeekerOfTruth007 · Answer

Because women world-wide are subscribing to the abortion doctrine and simply murdering their own children. That's the God's honest truth.

Hagar88 · Answer

Women are choosing to have less children later in life

permanentem · Answer

I guess women aren't successful at attracting mates.

dragoblack · Answer

Children are expensive, plutocracy is raising across the world, the economy is crap due to corrupt politicians & ultra rich people bribing politicians to manipulate it to their will.

MrChinaski · Answer

Parenthood isn't valued the way it used to be.

Anonymous · Answer

Two is fine! People don’t need more than two children. And the world population is too big anyway. We need less people, not more.

WhatIsYourZodiac · Answer

Do you have any reference links to support this question?

loveslongnails · Answer

The world is a fucking mess. Why bring more souls into it?

Anonymous · Answer

Microplastics, Climate Change, Devices In Our Pockets, and Other Factors.

Staximus · Answer

Good, maybe the planet will not go to shit if we get down to about a billion people

Ariesman81 · Answer

The pill. Abortion. Plan B. Less attractive women.

Mike_Hum · Answer

gee, if only we could point to something that happened within the past 5 years.

zagor · Answer

Unfortunately it is still way too high in many places.

Anonymous · Answer

People are poorer, the smart ones know were overpopulated and no one wants to supply the Epsteinians anymore

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

As women become educated, they become less likely to view themselves mere baby mahines.

Anonymous · Answer

Obviously it's because of the COVID shots that so many people ignorantly received. And infertility is only ONE of the problems that these particular people have had

MasterKS · Answer

Men changed the lifestyle and health habits that’s lower the quality of cum! It’s high time men should care of it more otherwise it goes more low!

BigD210 · Answer

Best guess is it’s food related. In some of the western countries I would say lack of personal interaction plays a role also.

Anonymous · Answer

Depends on the continents, it's high in Africa.

Anonymous · Answer

This is due to feminism, and is just another example of how feminism is destroying society.

jahaims · Answer

Poor health and bad economies

CubaPirate · Answer

Poor diet id guess

robocop666 · Answer

Economy. not in 3rd world countries.

DextroShade · Answer

Feminism

AgentG111 · Answer

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