{"id":69,"date":"2026-05-10T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:59:33","slug":"latin-americas-fertility-decline-is-accelerating-no-ones-certain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/blog\/2026\/05\/10\/latin-americas-fertility-decline-is-accelerating-no-ones-certain-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America\u2019s Fertility Decline is Accelerating. No One\u2019s Certain Why."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Among demographers, 2023 will be remembered as the year Brazil \u201cshrank\u201d by almost 5 million people.<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new census put the country\u2019s population at 203 million people\u2014well below the 208 million previously estimated by Brazil\u2019s national statistics institute, and even further from the 216 million calculated by the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those missing people didn\u2019t vanish or emigrate\u2014they were never born. The 2022 census, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, showed that Brazil\u2019s population grew during the 2010s by just 0.52% per year\u2014half the rate seen throughout the 2000s, and the lowest such percentage since 1872.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil is not alone. For half a century, fertility rates around the world have been drifting downwards thanks to a confluence of rising education levels, greater labor force participation by women, strengthened reproductive rights, and wider access to contraception. But in several Latin American and Caribbean countries, this decline has recently accelerated to an unexpected degree that even experts are struggling to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Consider that total births in the United States, which has also seen a sustained reduction in fertility, dipped by 7% between 2013 and 2022. Within the same period, births fell between 10% and 34% in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries that account for two-thirds of the region\u2019s total population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-03-at-5.27.28-PM-1024x954-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-03-at-5.27.28-PM-1024x954-1.png 758w, https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-01-03-at-5.27.28-PM-1024x954-1-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19300 West Dixie Highway. 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Those missing people didn\u2019t vanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-menopause"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screen.com.ve\/clientes\/taurelwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}