[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@MoreBirths](/creator/twitter/MoreBirths) "Extraordinarily low birthrates are being recorded in 2025. Demographers define "ultra-low fertility" as below XXX births/woman -- some XX countries were that low. Countries at XXX or less: Lithuania Poland Costa Rica South Korea Taiwan Hong Kong Thailand and Singapore"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1940541818023956663) 2025-07-02 22:43:17 UTC 39.5K followers, 4.7M engagements "Contrary to what most people think Hungary has had decent success raising birthrates considering global trends. When it began its 👶 campaign its fertility was lower than South Korea's. Getting fertility up is like trying to swim upstream against a powerful current. 1/2"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947087072314966485) 2025-07-21 00:11:47 UTC 39.5K followers, 29.4K engagements "Colombia has had one of the fastest fertility drops in the world from XXXX births/woman in 2000 all the way down to XXX in 2024. How can it be that Colombia with a GDP of 7K per year has a fertility so much lower than the US And why is this happening across Latin America 🧵"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733910177075582) 2025-07-22 19:02:05 UTC 39.5K followers, 1.3M engagements "In April I met with the top demographer in South Korea professor YoungTae Cho on the campus of Seoul National University where he teaches. We had a great conversation on the demographic future of Korea with lessons for every developed country. See below"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1949119850913087577) 2025-07-26 14:49:20 UTC 39.5K followers, 5826 engagements "Apartments in high-rises are inherently anti-family The more of them you build the lower fertility will be. (Please share) As we confront the low-fertility crisis that is enveloping most countries we need to understand the very low birth rates of cities in particular. One of the first facts of demography immediately evident in the data and true almost everywhere is that fertility is lower in urban cores than anywhere else. Economists like Bryan Caplan claim that fertility is so low in cities mainly because of cost. If cost is the main reason birth rates are so low among people living in urban"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1820578610568216743) 2024-08-05 21:52:20 UTC 39.5K followers, 153.3K engagements "Mongolian mothers of six are presented with the Order of Glorious Motherhood First Class. Second Class if you have four. Here celebrated mothers descend the steps of the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar on a red and gold carpet the statue of Genghis Khan directly behind them. 4/8"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1945902912422453258) 2025-07-17 17:46:22 UTC 39.5K followers, 2248 engagements "The biggest cause is the disappearance of marriage. The rate of marriage in Colombia plunged to just XXX per 1000 people in 2022 according to OECD statistics lowest in the world. (The US which has also seen a big drop still has a marriage rate X times as high at 6.0.) 3/10"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733916304994814) 2025-07-22 19:02:07 UTC 39.5K followers, 79.1K engagements "Will America be "the only successful country in the middle of just complete chaos and disaster" Marc Andreesen this week had a wide-ranging nearly four-hour conversation with Lex Fridman. In the most remarkable five-minute stretch he contemplated how the United States is on track to brain-drain the rest of the world of its best human capital. "I think its just a matter of time until people suddenly realize oh my God what are we doing" Marc Andreessen (2:50:18): Were going to brain drain the world youve heard that Were going to take all the smart people from all over the world were going to"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1884443991560552767) 2025-01-29 03:30:33 UTC 39.5K followers, 53K engagements "South Korea's shocking population pyramid shows that demographic collapse is well underway. An added headwind in Korea (and China too) is that there are a lot fewer women than men in the crucial 25-35 age range the result of sex-selective abortions a generation ago"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1948459733888750013) 2025-07-24 19:06:15 UTC 39.5K followers, 2.4M engagements "As for why marriage rates have dropped so low (now the lowest in the world) in Latin America that is a more difficult question. The fierce independence of Latin American women is one answer. The perceived unreliability of men is another. 8/10"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733931517739125) 2025-07-22 19:02:11 UTC 39.5K followers, 22K engagements "Since 1950 there have been only two countries on Earth that fell below replacement fertility and then achieved a lasting recovery. In my newest article I explore what those two countries did and why we need what I call strong pronatalism"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1946697105516474670) 2025-07-19 22:22:12 UTC 39.5K followers, 54.1K engagements "Mongolia's incomes are comparable its neighbors. It is urbanized. This is also not a case of religiously driven fertility: is primarily Buddhist and non-religious. This is about the status of motherhood. In the president himself gives an award to every mother of four 3/8"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1827418474282360981) 2024-08-24 18:51:30 UTC 39.5K followers, 319.6K engagements "The Latin American Family Model Hit Hardest Central and South America have long had some of the lowest marriage rates in the world. Even as US marriage rates fell marriage rates south of the border were always much lower. For a while birthrates held up because out-of-wedlock childbearing was extremely high as high as XX% in Colombia in 2015. But as birth control options have gotten better and better out of wedlock births have seen the biggest declines all over the world. For Latin America which had the world's highest rates of unmarried childbearing fertility fell the fastest. Marriage"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733937478111585) 2025-07-22 19:02:12 UTC 39.5K followers, 24.4K engagements "Marriage turns out to be central to healthy fertility and no country with a marriage rate under XXX reaches replacement. Colombia's marriage rate is so low it wouldn't even fit on this chart. 4/10"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1947733919119360214) 2025-07-22 19:02:08 UTC 39.5K followers, 38K engagements "In April I met with the top demographer in South Korea professor YoungTae Cho on the campus of Seoul National University where he teaches. We had a great conversation on the demographic future of Korea with lessons for every developed country. See below"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1949089571368501328) 2025-07-26 12:49:00 UTC 39.5K followers, 13.2K engagements "Housing in Singapore is abundant and costs locals very little thanks to Singapore's generous and high-quality public housing system. Yet Singapore's fertility was just XXXX in 2024. Apartments in high-rises aren't well suited for families no matter how affordable they are. 1/3"  [@MoreBirths](/creator/x/MoreBirths) on [X](/post/tweet/1944956034927436170) 2025-07-15 03:03:48 UTC 39.5K followers, 71.1K engagements
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"Extraordinarily low birthrates are being recorded in 2025. Demographers define "ultra-low fertility" as below XXX births/woman -- some XX countries were that low. Countries at XXX or less: Lithuania Poland Costa Rica South Korea Taiwan Hong Kong Thailand and Singapore"
@MoreBirths on X 2025-07-02 22:43:17 UTC 39.5K followers, 4.7M engagements
"Contrary to what most people think Hungary has had decent success raising birthrates considering global trends. When it began its 👶 campaign its fertility was lower than South Korea's. Getting fertility up is like trying to swim upstream against a powerful current. 1/2" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-21 00:11:47 UTC 39.5K followers, 29.4K engagements
"Colombia has had one of the fastest fertility drops in the world from XXXX births/woman in 2000 all the way down to XXX in 2024. How can it be that Colombia with a GDP of 7K per year has a fertility so much lower than the US And why is this happening across Latin America 🧵" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-22 19:02:05 UTC 39.5K followers, 1.3M engagements
"In April I met with the top demographer in South Korea professor YoungTae Cho on the campus of Seoul National University where he teaches. We had a great conversation on the demographic future of Korea with lessons for every developed country. See below" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-26 14:49:20 UTC 39.5K followers, 5826 engagements
"Apartments in high-rises are inherently anti-family The more of them you build the lower fertility will be. (Please share) As we confront the low-fertility crisis that is enveloping most countries we need to understand the very low birth rates of cities in particular. One of the first facts of demography immediately evident in the data and true almost everywhere is that fertility is lower in urban cores than anywhere else. Economists like Bryan Caplan claim that fertility is so low in cities mainly because of cost. If cost is the main reason birth rates are so low among people living in urban" @MoreBirths on X 2024-08-05 21:52:20 UTC 39.5K followers, 153.3K engagements
"Mongolian mothers of six are presented with the Order of Glorious Motherhood First Class. Second Class if you have four. Here celebrated mothers descend the steps of the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar on a red and gold carpet the statue of Genghis Khan directly behind them. 4/8" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-17 17:46:22 UTC 39.5K followers, 2248 engagements
"The biggest cause is the disappearance of marriage. The rate of marriage in Colombia plunged to just XXX per 1000 people in 2022 according to OECD statistics lowest in the world. (The US which has also seen a big drop still has a marriage rate X times as high at 6.0.) 3/10" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-22 19:02:07 UTC 39.5K followers, 79.1K engagements
"Will America be "the only successful country in the middle of just complete chaos and disaster" Marc Andreesen this week had a wide-ranging nearly four-hour conversation with Lex Fridman. In the most remarkable five-minute stretch he contemplated how the United States is on track to brain-drain the rest of the world of its best human capital. "I think its just a matter of time until people suddenly realize oh my God what are we doing" Marc Andreessen (2:50:18): Were going to brain drain the world youve heard that Were going to take all the smart people from all over the world were going to" @MoreBirths on X 2025-01-29 03:30:33 UTC 39.5K followers, 53K engagements
"South Korea's shocking population pyramid shows that demographic collapse is well underway. An added headwind in Korea (and China too) is that there are a lot fewer women than men in the crucial 25-35 age range the result of sex-selective abortions a generation ago" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-24 19:06:15 UTC 39.5K followers, 2.4M engagements
"As for why marriage rates have dropped so low (now the lowest in the world) in Latin America that is a more difficult question. The fierce independence of Latin American women is one answer. The perceived unreliability of men is another. 8/10" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-22 19:02:11 UTC 39.5K followers, 22K engagements
"Since 1950 there have been only two countries on Earth that fell below replacement fertility and then achieved a lasting recovery. In my newest article I explore what those two countries did and why we need what I call strong pronatalism" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-19 22:22:12 UTC 39.5K followers, 54.1K engagements
"Mongolia's incomes are comparable its neighbors. It is urbanized. This is also not a case of religiously driven fertility: is primarily Buddhist and non-religious. This is about the status of motherhood. In the president himself gives an award to every mother of four 3/8" @MoreBirths on X 2024-08-24 18:51:30 UTC 39.5K followers, 319.6K engagements
"The Latin American Family Model Hit Hardest Central and South America have long had some of the lowest marriage rates in the world. Even as US marriage rates fell marriage rates south of the border were always much lower. For a while birthrates held up because out-of-wedlock childbearing was extremely high as high as XX% in Colombia in 2015. But as birth control options have gotten better and better out of wedlock births have seen the biggest declines all over the world. For Latin America which had the world's highest rates of unmarried childbearing fertility fell the fastest. Marriage" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-22 19:02:12 UTC 39.5K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Marriage turns out to be central to healthy fertility and no country with a marriage rate under XXX reaches replacement. Colombia's marriage rate is so low it wouldn't even fit on this chart. 4/10" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-22 19:02:08 UTC 39.5K followers, 38K engagements
"In April I met with the top demographer in South Korea professor YoungTae Cho on the campus of Seoul National University where he teaches. We had a great conversation on the demographic future of Korea with lessons for every developed country. See below" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-26 12:49:00 UTC 39.5K followers, 13.2K engagements
"Housing in Singapore is abundant and costs locals very little thanks to Singapore's generous and high-quality public housing system. Yet Singapore's fertility was just XXXX in 2024. Apartments in high-rises aren't well suited for families no matter how affordable they are. 1/3" @MoreBirths on X 2025-07-15 03:03:48 UTC 39.5K followers, 71.1K engagements