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. 2020;13(9):1083-1092.
doi: 10.1007/s11869-020-00865-z. Epub 2020 Jul 11.

The impacts of COVID-19 measures on global environment and fertility rate: double coincidence

Muhammad Khalid Anser  1 , Zahid Yousaf  2 , Muhammad Azhar Khan  3 , Xuan Hinh Voo  4 , Abdelmohsen A Nassani  5 , Saad M Alotaibi  5 , Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro  5 , Khalid Zaman  6
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The impacts of COVID-19 measures on global environment and fertility rate: double coincidence

Muhammad Khalid Anser et al. Air Qual Atmos Health. 2020.

Abstract

The study aims to examine the effects of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) measures on global environment and fertility rate by using the data of 1980 to 2019. The results show that communicable diseases including COVID-19 measures decrease carbon emissions and increase the chances of fertility rates in an account of city-wide lockdown. The knowledge spillover substantially decreases carbon emissions, while high energy demand increases carbon emissions. Poverty incidence increases fertility rate in the short-run; however, in the long-run, the result only supported with vulnerable employment and food prices that lead to increase fertility rates worldwide. The study concludes that besides some high negative externalities associated with COVID-19 pandemic in the form of increasing death tolls and rising healthcare costs, the global world should have to know how to direct high mass carbon emissions and population growth through acceptance of preventive measures, which would be helpful to contain coronavirus pandemic at a global scale.

Keywords: COVID-19; Carbon emissions; Energy demand; Fertility rate; Knowledge spillover; World aggregated data.

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