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För att mota en akut kris i Arabvärldens mest folkrika land förbereder EU ett nytt stort stödpaket. (Befolkning 2020 uppskattning 102 miljoner) Tidigare fått lån och investeringar om totalt 40 miljarder dollar, motsvarande nära 410 miljarder kronor från Förenade Arabemiraten och IMF.  Det syftar också till att förstärka Egyptens gräns mot Libyen där många korsar Medelhavet på väg till Europa DI 13 mars 2024 https://www.di.se/nyheter/miljardregn-ska-hindra-storkris-i-egypten/

The total fertility rate (TFR) — the number of live children the average woman bears in her lifetime   In one country after another, it has dropped under the 2.1 threshold (the “replacement rate,” allowing for childhood deaths and sex imbalances), below which the population is bound to decline.    This fertility slump is in many ways the most remarkable trend of our era. And it is not only Elon Musk who worries that “population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.” Our species is not done multiplying, to be sure.   “More than half of the projected increase in the global population between 2022 and 2050 is expected to be concentrated in just eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC], Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United Republic of Tanzania.”  When the human population begins to fall, it will do so not gradually, but almost as steeply as it once rose. The problem ...