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Nations are confronting a reversal that will make first-birthday parties rarer than funerals

Read more about Fewer workers, more retirees: Slowing population spells problem for world on Business Standard. Demographers predict that by latter half of the century, global population will enter a sustained decline for the first time.

All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore.