FT stated about the impact of the spread of smartphones on the decline in the birth rate in the world

The spread of smartphones leads to a decrease in the birth rate all over the planet. This was announced on May 17 by the Financial Times (FT) newspaper.

The article notes that the fertility curve in the United States, Great Britain and Australia for young people in the early 2000s did not show significant changes. However, in 2007, it began to decline sharply.

A similar trend was recorded in France and Poland in 2009, as well as in 2012 in Mexico, Morocco and Indonesia. In Africa, this indicator began to decrease from 2013 to 2015. The article notes that these changes correspond to an increase in smartphone sales over time.

"To meet the person you're getting married to, you need to filter out a lot of people. If you socialize a lot less, it takes you longer to find a mate, if you find one at all," explains demographer Lyman Stone.

The expert also stressed that when communicating with peers in real life, standards for choosing a partner are formed based on the real world, and not on artificial ideas about what is considered the norm.

The Guardian newspaper in November last year stated that the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, was recognized as the most populous city in the world, with 42 million people living there. The second place in the list is the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, with 37 million inhabitants, and the third is the capital of Japan, Tokyo, with 33 million people.