Is GM or somebody going to look at the ongoing population decline in countries occuring on all the worlds? This is not random. Many players voicing concerns on this.
It seems they have responded by decreasing the death rate. This will increase the population in the short term (although almost exclusively among the elderly... hello ageing crisis). However, it will do nothing to balance the long term lack of births (if anything it will make it worse, since birth rates reduce as the population ages).