NEW AQ: Latin America’s Demographic Cliff Is Here
By
AQ Editors
Falling fertility rates are already having profound political and economic effects.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America’s demographic transformation Here is a factoid that stuns virtually everyone: Chile today has a lower birth rate than Japan, at just 1.1 children per woman. While that is the lowest such number in Latin America, it does reflect a broader trend underway throughout the entire region, which as a result is now aging faster than any other part of the world. It is a seismic change for a region that as recently as the 1960s had a birth rate approaching six per woman. The Latin American average today is 1.8, below the...
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