{"id":66470,"date":"2026-07-11T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66470"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:58:18","slug":"population-decline-not-just-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66470","title":{"rendered":"Population Decline &#8211; Not Just Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Population_Decline.jpg\" alt=\"Population Decline - Not Just Europe\" width=\"1287\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Population_Decline.jpg 1287w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Population_Decline-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Population_Decline-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Population_Decline-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For decades, the Arab Muslim world was seen as a region of unstoppable population growth. Today, that assumption is being turned upside down as birth rates fall across the Middle East and North Africa, reshaping economies, societies, and the future of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iP93kvPhQZo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iP93kvPhQZo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the Arab Muslim world was seen as a region of unstoppable population growth. Today, that assumption is being turned upside down as birth rates fall across the Middle East and North Africa, reshaping economies, societies, and the future of the region. Click to view the video:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iP93kvPhQZo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66472,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66470\/revisions\/66472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}