Children are disappearing.   
Grosso modo, sub-Saharan African and Arab nations have the highest fertility rates; the average Nigerian woman has five children. East Asia has the lowest. In South Korea, for example, the statistical average for births per woman is 0.8. 
At that rate, the South Korean population will be cut in half by the end of the century. In neighboring Japan, the population has been falling for the last fifteen years and the president warns that the country “may not be able to sustain a functioning society.” 
Europe and the US are somewhere between the extremes, but new births, to native-born women, are generally less than replacement level. Russia has a fertility rate of only 1.4 births per woman. This is so alarming that Russian lawmakers have proposed to ban night-time internet use. The fertility rate for New York State is 1.7 children per woman. That is already well below the 2.1 ‘replacement rate.’ But in the New York metro area, the rate is the lowest in the state. It's a dogs' world now. The dogs are well fed. They’re given vaccines, supplements, and organic food. They are enrolled in training programs... and given emotional counseling when necessary. And they’ve even trained owners to trail behind them and pick up their poop.  

Bonner Research 11-15-24