Is the government panicking?
We are doing our best to ensure that the old people of the future are never born.
Scandinavian sketches – signs of life among the Nordics
The most popular newborn baby name in the Belgian capital of Brussels is now the Islamic name “Muhammad” according to the country’s national statistics agency, Stratbel. Two variations of the name – “Mohamed” and “Mohammed” – were two of the top three most common boys’ names in Brussels last year, with a total of 18,430 […]
Down 40% since 1970s
Despite environmentalist warnings of “overpopulation,” a Lancet study last year predicted that the world’s population will decline significantly in the coming decades for the first time in centuries. Yesterday Gript reported on the fact that Iran has enacted new legislation aimed at encouraging more births. Iran’s new “Law on Family and Youth Support” is part […]
Lessons for Ireland
Greying populations are a threat to the world economy
Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau in April. Population was up by 7.4 percent over the previous decade, the slowest growth rate the US has seen since the Great Depression. (These findings are a bit surprising since […]
Whilst 2016 saw 18 million babies born in China, 2020 saw only 12 million.
Before the 1965 Immigration Act, the US was approaching zero population growth. The “land of the free and home of the brave,” as we call ourselves, has had below-replacement fertility since the early 1970s. We now see that fifty years of importing a new people merely delayed the inevitable. Immigration, which has slackened of late, […]
It’s a long-held political axiom among nationalists in the north that the demographic trend would eventually put Sinn Féin in power in Northern Ireland. Because Catholics tended to have larger families they would eventually outvote unionists, or so it was commonly believed. This, of course, contributed to the sectarian violence and terrorism of unionist militias, from […]