We’ve warned many times on these pages that the decline in the birth rate in America is a prescription for demographic collapse. Last week, the CDC reported that the U.S. birthrate has fallen to 1.63 births per woman of childbearing age. That’s roughly half the reproduction rate of 50 years ago.

The replacement level of fertility is closer to 2.1 kids per woman

These falling birth rates will create an inverted population pyramid for the U.S. with fewer young people to support aging baby boomers who are mostly retired today.

Thankfully, America has the one golden demographic safety valve: the immigration of millions of foreigners who come at the start of their working years and ease the crisis.

But a nation without children is an empire in decline. The population bomb we were told to worry about in the 1960s has turned into a population bust – which is a lot worse.  We don’t know whether to blame this on the young ladies or the men.

But come on young people: be fruitful and multiply.