By depressing world birth rates and population projections further, the still-raging pandemic may also damage the ability of economies to grow their way out of the additional debt piles Covid-19 has foisted upon them.
A report by HSBC this week said the pandemic’s effect on falling birth rates could weaken the pace of global population growth far more than the 1.87-million death toll to date — prompting them to bring forward their forecast peak in world population by as much as a decade to the early 2050s...
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