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When will the world's Total Fertility Rate be reported to have fallen below replacement level?
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2069
20%
Before 2027
35%
Before 2028
42%
Before 2029
52%
Before 2030
58%
Before 2031
63%
Before 2032
71%
Before 2033
70%
Before 2034
72%
Before 2035
73%
Before 2036
68%
Before 2037
66%
Before 2038
64%
Before 2039
64%
Before 2040
67%
Before 2041
68%
Before 2042
68%
Before 2043
70%
Before 2044
70%
Before 2045
72%
Before 2046

This is a cumulative probability market. For an answer to resolve YES, reports/publications/data from any sufficiently conventionally high-status source (e.g. the UN Population Division, the World Bank, the CIA World Factbook, the Population Reference Bureau) need to come out before the date of that answer claiming that the world's Total Fertility Rate is at or below 2.1 (replacement level can change depending on mortality rates, sex ratio, etc. but 2.1 is the figure for the purposes of this question).

Not that publications after an answer's date that make this claim are not eligible to count towards this question, even if they concern time periods before the date in question. The actual claim itself that humanity has fallen below replacement level needs to be made before the year in the answer in question.

I will use my discretion on what sources I will count, but expect it to be conservative. Feel free to ask about sources ahead of time.

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bought Ṁ1 NO

The standard UN population trajectory will cross 2.1:

  • percentile 2.5% in 2028

  • percentile 10% in 2031

  • the median is in 2049

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bought Ṁ3 YES

According to WorldBank it's 2.3 in 2021: https://data.worldbank.org/share/widget?indicators=SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

It's dropped a full 0.2 from 2017 to 2021. If it continues dropping at that rate it'll hit 2.1 by 2025 (which should be released at some point in 2028)