Re:People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for...
by I_am_uncreative on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @01:18AM
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And yet, Australia's population is slated to decline, while the US is not.
Re:People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for...
by skissane on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @04:24AM
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> And yet, Australia's population is slated to decline, while the US is not.
Slated to decline according to whom? According to the most recent projections published by Australia's national statistics agency, [0] Australia's population is projected to continuously increase through 2066, ending up at somewhere between 37 and 49 million (compared to around 26 million today). The only projection of theirs according to which it will decline is the highly unrealistic "zero immigration" scenario.
[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/populati...
Australia's immigration rate, on a per capita basis, is more than double that of the US, and somewhat ahead of Canada's. [0] It has a lower fertility rate than the US (1.58 for Australia vs 1.64 for US), but still higher fertility than Canada (1.40), and I suspect having double the immigration rate is probably going to make up for the somewhat lower fertility. And I think you are missing more countries than just Australia.
While in absolute terms, the US accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world, on a per capita basis, its net immigration rate isn't particularly high, and is below that of many Western European countries.
[0] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/net-migration-r...