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Global Fertility Crisis 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1086 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1086 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Aa Dil Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Preamble While population growth is alarming for the countries and the world at large, this is one side of the picture. An even more alarming situation is the falling birth rate which has gone down drastically low.  I am discussing this matter through drawing material from a recent McKinsey report along with articles from various other sources. Links at the end. Support Ratios Will Continue to Fall The world shall become more and more youth-scarce, which means that the number of workers per senior will fall.  Support ration is the number of people of working age relative to senior citizen...

Global Fertility Crisis 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1085 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1085 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com   for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Jimmy Chan Credit: Mumtahina Tanni Credit: Sam Rana Preamble While population growth is alarming for the countries and the world at large, this is one side of the picture. An even more alarming situation is the falling birth rate which has gone down drastically low.  I am discussing this matter through drawing material from a recent McKinsey report along with articles from various other sources. Links at the end. Reasons for Declining Birth Rate Falling birth rates across the world are driven by a combination of social, economic, technological, and cultural factors. Here are the key reasons globally. Pakistan has a different situation due to major...

Global Fertility Crisis 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1084 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1084 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Daisy Laparra Credit: Muqtada Mohsen Preamble During the last census, the digital census as it was called, Pakistan population was estimated at over 240 million. More importantly, population growth was found to be 2.5% across the country, while Balochistan had 3.5% population growth. These figures were presented as alarming because our country could not afford such high growth. Regional comparison put India at 1.7% and Bangladesh at 1.9%. However, in all these statistics, there was no calculation of average number of children per family, which also means how many children a woman shall have during her entire number of fertile years. While population gro...