We also know there's a baby bust generation following the baby boomers.

我们还知道，婴儿潮一代之后出生率骤然下降。

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Already, birth rates the world over have halved from an average of five children per women to just 2.6 today-a baby bust replacing the baby boom.

世界生育率已经降低了一半，从每个妇女平均五个孩子到如今的2.6个。婴儿潮已然退去。

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This obscures the point: for every big advanced country besides America and Israel, the alternative to “replacement rate” fertility is a baby bust.

这种论调模糊了一个论点，即：对于美国与以色列之外的先进国家而言，“替代生育率”与婴儿的低出生率，二者必居其一。

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So, back to the Baby Bust, the question must be considered as to why we should change the clear trend in any developed country to have less people who lead happier lives?

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This baby bust was a demographic echo of the rural famines that haunted China from 1958 to 1961, reducing the size of the cohort that would have been their parents (see right-hand chart).

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Just as the baby boom of the late 1950s and 1960s pushed up the number of first-time buyers in the 1980s, so the baby bust of the 1970s has depressed the number of first-time purchasers.

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