The Muslim world is on the brink of the fastest population decline in human history. "It's amazing how fast the birth rate in Muslim countries is falling." According to open sources of information, the demographic situation in these countries can be presented in the form of a train disaster: trains from Iran, Turkey and Tunisia are pulled by locomotives of people who are now 20-30 years old. They were born in families with 5-6 children. But the “locomotive” hit the demographic wall: these young people have only one or two children each.

The current gigantic demographic bubble of young Arabs, whose political humiliation and frustration erupted into the Arab Spring, will be followed by a much smaller generation. Today the largest age group in Iran is 20-30 year olds. But they are not reproduced. The modern educated young Iranian woman was born into a family where she had six or seven brothers and sisters, but she herself will give birth to only one child. It is the consequence of this state of affairs that the impending demographic catastrophe will become.

Today, there are nine young Iranians working for every elderly Iranian. But by 2050, when the mass of those in their 20s and 30s will retire, 60-year-old Iranians will become the largest age group - seven old people for every 10 working Iranians. An aging population poses a serious threat even to strong societies with well-established social safety nets, such as the developed Western countries. For societies with little or no defenses, aging is a national disaster. The situation is aggravated by the fact that, for example, Iran produces 4400 dollars of GNP per year per capita, which is 10 times less than in the United States. Moreover, most of the GNP is formed through the sale of oil and gas, the reserves of which may simply dry up.

Experts state that it is too late to fight the decline in the population. The mother of a hypothetical 25-year-old Iranian woman married at 16-17, and by the age of 25 she already had five or six children. One of her daughters, a modern Iranian girl, delayed her marriage to 25, devoting her most fertile age to education and work.

Interesting.

Mordor Dark Lord Vladimir Putin signed a law giving the government the right to use inventions and utility models in the healthcare sector, as well as to produce medicines without the permission of the patent holder in the interests of national security in emergency situations. The document was published on Friday on the official orks Internet portal of legal information.

Currently, the Civil Code allows the government "in the interests of defense and security, to authorize the use of an invention, utility model or industrial design without the consent of the patent holder, notifying him of this as soon as possible and paying him proportionate compensation."

The law specifies that such a right arises "in case of extreme necessity related to ensuring the defense and security of the state, or for protecting the life and health of citizens."

At least it is small step.

Apple cuts production plan for AirPods for the current year by 25-30%. Not only this, but big marketplaces are already offering AirPods at 25% off the starting price. The company still hopes to see a resurgence in demand for this product category, but this hopes are mostly unfounded.

Interesting fact is that around 40% of all sold notebooks during last 4 months bad been sold during special sales offers, contrary to only 5% one year ago.

Same is true for iPhone smartphones, in Asia 55% of smartphones had been sold at least 15% below official price, in EU this numbers are around 40%.

Very interesting development.

As now (last 10 months) most big sites and youtube influences have special contracts with Apple where they are obliged to cover almost each happening sale. They also use special affiliate links and similar things, so, for example, Amazon could pass this information further to Apple. Numbers significantly affect how Apple work with their informational partners (aka presstitutes) - ones who bring good sales will get gear well before release and also get personal managers to help arranging reviews, benchmarks and so on.