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The U.S. fertility rate has fallen to a record low, extending a nearly 20-year decline.

But this isn't just an American trend. Across East Asia, Europe, and much of Latin America, women are having fewer children, later in life, or none.

And within a generation, the world's population is on track to start shrinking.

CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez reports.

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