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Smartphones and social media linked to declining global birthrates
Financial Times analysis links mass smartphone and social media adoption to declining global birthrates, citing reduced in-person socialising as a contributing factor.
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The demographic landslide defining our era is gaining speed — and terrain.
In more than two-thirds of the world's 195 countries …
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