Re:Why the decline of US power has been greatly exaggerated
by gregjor on Sunday December 03, 2023 @07:26AM
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The US also has an increasingly geriatric population. Japan has a lead in declining birth rate and increasingly aged population, but the US and western Europe (and China) have the same problem.
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Re:Why the decline of US power has been greatly exaggerated
by jfim on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:44AM
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The US compensates its declining birth rate by a large influx of immigrants. In comparison, Japan's immigration numbers are tiny: https://data.oecd.org/chart/5StJ
Re:Why the decline of US power has been greatly exaggerated
by gregjor on Sunday December 03, 2023 @09:37AM
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Immigration won't make future generations of Americans larger than the generation before them. We're just losing ground slower than Japan. Much studied and commented on. Tl;dr immigrants have lower birth rate than 100 or 50 years ago.
https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Among-Immigrants-and-Native...
Japan has started to encourage immigration, but probably too little, too late.
Almost every country in Asia has a declining birth rate.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171367/apac-total-ferti...