# The Gray Tide: What a Rapidly Aging Latin America Means

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Podcast: [The Americas Quarterly Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-americas-quarterly-podcast-1105978)
Published: 2026-04-30T21:00:00+00:00
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As recently as the 1960s, the average woman in Latin America had six children. Today that number is 1.8. In Chile, it has fallen to 1.1, lower than Japan. Combined with rising life expectancy, the result is a region aging faster than any other in the world. If current trends hold, national populations could decline by a third in Chile and Uruguay, a quarter in Brazil, and a fifth in Argentina by 2100. The consequences are already visible: pension crises and census counts that have come in mil...

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