Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, has issued a stark warning in the New York Post. In his article “Baby Doom,” Mosher highlights the alarming global decline in birth rates.

“The big story comes from China, home to one-sixth of the world’s population,” Mosher writes, “the decades-long devastation wrought by the one-child policy has sent that country, for centuries the pacesetter in population, into absolute decline.” He notes that the official population figure of 1.44 billion is likely exaggerated by as much as 130 million.

This birth rate issue is widespread, as Mosher explains “for the first time in the 60,000 or so years that human beings first arrived on the planet, we are not having enough babies to replace ourselves.” In addition, he argues that the 2.1 figure, often reported as the necessary replacement rate, is too low because “in many countries sex-selection abortion skews the sex ratio strongly in favor of boys.”

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Mosher criticizes international organizations, including the UN Population Fund and the World Bank, for masking the true extent of the problem. “These agencies, set up during the height of the hysteria over ‘overpopulation’ in the 1960s, like to overestimate births in one country and pad population numbers in another,” he argues.

The consequences of this demographic decline are profound. Mosher warns, “For the first time since the Black Death in the Middle Ages, human numbers will decline,” urging policymakers to take this issue seriously before it’s too late.

Mosher is the author of a dozen books on China, including his latest, The Devil and Communist China.  He has testified before Congress on China on numerous occasions and is a frequent guest on Fox, Newsmax, and other nationally syndicated shows.