After being more or less stable for 200.000 years, Global fertility has halved in the last 70 years. It's maybe Humankind's biggest change. It's insane! What is happening? So many things at once...

A podcast by David Duhamel produced by MaisonK Prod

Original music: Ben Molinaro

Graphic design: Anna Toussaint

Sources :

Matthias Doepke et Al., 2022, The Economics of Fertility: A New Era, https://www.nber.org/papers/w29948

Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong and Suzanne Duryea, 2012, "Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil. "American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4(4), 1-31

Robert Jensen et Emily Oster, 2009, The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India, The Quaterly Journal of Economics, Volume 124, Issue 3, https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2009.124.3.1057