For those who don't have children

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I believe the fertility rate in the US is at replacement levels if not higher. It's even higher than Mexico's. Canada's is much lower.

The US is set to grow over 40% to 420 million by 2050. It's by far the largest growing industrialized nation. In fact, the US & Canada are the only industrialized nations with large & significant growth rates (over 10%).

I'll have to check the stats in the morning if it still seems important

I'm pretty sure nearly all of the growth is from immigration, but maybe I'm mistaken.

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I believe the fertility rate in the US is at replacement levels if not higher. It's even higher than Mexico's. Canada's is much lower.

The US is set to grow over 40% to 420 million by 2050. It's by far the largest growing industrialized nation. In fact, the US & Canada are the only industrialized nations with large & significant growth rates (over 10%).

I'll have to check the stats in the morning if it still seems important

I'm pretty sure nearly all of the growth is from immigration, but maybe I'm mistaken.

A lot of it is, but the US has a high birth rate compared to other industralized nations. The US is set to grow by 43% and Canada by 20% or so. I believe the US has a much higher growth rate because of the higher birth rate coupled with immigration. I'm guessing that the birth rate is at or close to replacement levels, so immigration doesn't have to cover up for loss of population as much.

I had a thread about this not even a week ago regarding a recently released 2050 world population report.