The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR

This photo taken on October 20, 2024 shows puppets in the village of Ichinono, one of the "puppet villages" in Japan created to ease the lonesome feelings due to depopulation, in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture. Japan has one of the oldest populations in the world and has a fertility rate well under replacement level. (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the past century, the world’s human population has exploded from around 2…

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