Episode
The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
EconTalk · Oct 12, 2026 · 1 h 11 min
For the first time in human history, we're not having enough children to keep the world's population from falling. And fertility is collapsing fastest not in rich nations but in places like Colombia, Thailand, and Guatemala, upending decades of economic wisdom. Economist Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts that falling fertility has accelerated sharply over the past decade…