By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.

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[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To add to this there's an event horizon birth rate of 1.5 children per women. Once you cross the event horizon you never come back out (there might be one or two exceptions technically but I'm quoting someone else here so don't @ me)

The basic loop is once birth rates are that low things are usually pretty bad for parents. Uncertainty about the future, extreme focus on attaining stability where stability is an impossibility. Once you drop below 1.5 for a sustained period of time you never come back out. The people who could fix it (parents) are overworked, underpaid, living in tiny apartments they can barely afford, have to pay more in childcare than rent just to maintain their living situation...

The young can't be the only ones investing in the future...

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

(parents) are overworked, underpaid, living in tiny apartments they can barely afford, have to pay more in childcare than rent just to maintain their living situation…

seems like we're already there

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah if you subtract immigration and first gen immigrants (>14yo at immigration is highly likely to have the same amount of kids as where they're from. <14yo is highly likely to have close to the new host nations family size) the US is already on the other side of the event horizon.