It's live, one day after #IDOP - The truth about human population decline (Jennifer D. Sciubba | TED2023) https://t.co/W2WiGl5B0Z via @TEDTalks

The share of U.S. women age 40-44 who had ever given birth declined between 1979 and 2024 from 90% to 81%. This increase in childlessness was driven entirely by women without a college degree. The % has stayed the same for women with a college degree.

➜ ➜ ➜ 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐫. @JenniferSciubba’𝐬 𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤, "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞":

Enjoyed recording this conversation on #lowfertility and #pronatalism!

Fertility is not the crisis. @JenniferSciubba explains why U.S. life expectancy is the real red flag. Tune into the latest Sanity Interview for the full conversation. https://t.co/i4vPftiG8n

The latest Sanity Interview features @JenniferSciubba on population trends, optimism by country, and a surprising answer to how many kids a family should have. Tune in:

Latest Weekend Interview… https://t.co/TqAVU3QiH9 … Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba 🎁🔽 https://t.co/gfyJB750vF

🏢 Who will shape the future workforce? PRB's President & CEO @JenniferSciubba will join @AARP and other experts to discuss how aging, globalization, and family changes are reshaping the labor market. Register for tomorrow's session: https://t.co/2k2vvFn5op #FutureOfWork

Need some book recs for #WorldPopulationDay2025? #TBR

This #WorldPopulationDay, may we recommend “8 Billion & Counting” for your summer #TBR? 🌍 📚 @JenniferSciubba cuts through the noise on population panic, showing why context, politics & the right questions matter more than raw numbers. 🔗Read an excerpt: https://t.co/elIhpfiQFE

Join us on July 16th for the launch of our new interactive tool showing the landscape of contraceptive access across the US! https://t.co/RTrX4h9Bsy #contraception @PRBdata

🧩 Piecing together the puzzle of policies that affect access to #contraception is a daunting task—even for the most seasoned policymaker, advocate, or researcher. To understand where—& why—people face barriers to care, join @PRBdata on July 16:

🚨 If you work in reproductive health & rights, this could be a gamechanger. 🚨 On July 16, join @PRBdata for the launch of State of Access, an interactive map offering quick, actionable insights on state policies that affect access to #contraception:

Busan is facing acute population decline. In just a few hours, experts will convene at the 2025 Global Demographic Strategy Forum. PRB's own President & CEO @JenniferSciubba will deliver the keynote, framing the discussion and highlighting paths to resilience.

Register now for the first of our webinars on this new lower fertility world! Amazing speaker lineup https://t.co/AgMEDFmw4L #lowfertilty #srhr #population

Writing more on "the truth about human population decline" today and reflecting on my TED Talk experience. So much more to say! #depopulation #lowfertility

to the 'population bomb' crisis of the 1970s, and most recently to the 'birth dearth' anxieties of the 1980s." #populationcontrol #population #pronatalism #environment

Within the past 50 years alone, the prolific polemicists that inhabit the United States have collectively gone full circle-lurching their noisy way from the 'race suicide' alarums of the 1930s..

modern environmentalists, to the cornucopian pronatalism of early utopians and recent 'supply-siders,' the casual reader has been buffeted by visions of excess and dearth, of vigor and decay, of boom and of bust...

Writers of different persuasions have seen demographic change as the engine of human ascent to a state transcending all other life forms, and as the fundamental contradiction leading to human self-destruction. From the gloomy prognostications of the Reverend Thomas Malthus and..

Trying to write a great first paragraph but can't improve upon Michael Teitelbaum, writing in 1988 when world population was 5 billion: "For at least two centuries, discussion of population trends has been accompanied by visions of progress, and by specters of apocalypse...