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Unfortunately for demographers, birth rates are hard to predict far into the future. gremlin/E+ via Getty Images

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

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