A total of 10 billion people are expected to be living on earth by 2050. With humans living longer, experts estimate that the number of elderly people per 10 working-age people will nearly triple from 20 to 58, by 2050. Many Governments are, hence, incentivising people to have more babies. The pandemic has proven to be a dampener on people’s plans of having children, especially in rich countries, further exacerbating a growing demographic crisis. A survey conducted in June 2020 by the Guttmacher Institute of American women found that more than 40 percent of women surveyed changed their plans of when to have children or how many children to have, because of the pandemic. One-third of women (34 per cent) planned to get pregnant later or have fewer children because of the pandemic. Women were also having more difficulties getting contraceptives.
