Your government wants you to have more babies

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. But today, in an era of birth control and easy access to abortion, the pleasure of does not guarantee reproduction. And so now some governments are trying to persuade people that we need a next generation. Most recently, in Sweden, where the fertility rate is 1.8, politicians are beginning to get desperate.