waterbed
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Industial revolution, condoms ,atheist and muliticulti brings the opposite of survival of the fittest.
Plummeting US Birthrates
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waterbed
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very true and I realised too that feminist are always women women in countries were women have it o.k.
In example holland you have you have girls first festivals.From a men is expected to have financial for the women and the women can choose if she want to work full part or not when she is with a men.Most work 2 or 3 times a week and prefer to combinate work with 2 children and have fun variaty between work and taking care of the kids.But the feminist say not what I would expect"its a women paradise" but they say: 'men are holding women down' ,when in fact you can't make it to the top if you don't work full time.Also men have more status drive on average.
Diversity is also something retarded and is always used anti white .
how often do you hear that it is bad when whites are underrepresended in something which you see in music, some sports, jail.how often is it mentioned it as bad that homosexuals are overeprsented in makin models clothes, and that there have to come more clothing straight men or out of the closet.Gender IQ culture have all influence in what you like to do as hobby ,wotk etc.But some people have the fetishg that they want whites to be in everything the same % as in the nation or less.it was even comfirmed becuase I did hear people in the media say in my country: non western immigrants( who are 12% of popualtion and they mean non white) have to be at least 12% on television.So he confirmed non whites have to be at least the% that they are.
But im sure they are 12 % probably not in profesors on television but in excample news readers they are like 50%.Or probably he meaned in everything on television at least 12%.Also when our prime minister choosed 3 of 12 of his ministers as female he was a sexist but where he could choose of candiadtes was like 40% women and 1 women didn't wanted when she was choosed.Its like saying throwing a dice and it is 1 to 5 times of 12 times a 1,2 or 3 is a crime.
In example holland you have you have girls first festivals.From a men is expected to have financial for the women and the women can choose if she want to work full part or not when she is with a men.Most work 2 or 3 times a week and prefer to combinate work with 2 children and have fun variaty between work and taking care of the kids.But the feminist say not what I would expect"its a women paradise" but they say: 'men are holding women down' ,when in fact you can't make it to the top if you don't work full time.Also men have more status drive on average.
Diversity is also something retarded and is always used anti white .
how often do you hear that it is bad when whites are underrepresended in something which you see in music, some sports, jail.how often is it mentioned it as bad that homosexuals are overeprsented in makin models clothes, and that there have to come more clothing straight men or out of the closet.Gender IQ culture have all influence in what you like to do as hobby ,wotk etc.But some people have the fetishg that they want whites to be in everything the same % as in the nation or less.it was even comfirmed becuase I did hear people in the media say in my country: non western immigrants( who are 12% of popualtion and they mean non white) have to be at least 12% on television.So he confirmed non whites have to be at least the% that they are.
But im sure they are 12 % probably not in profesors on television but in excample news readers they are like 50%.Or probably he meaned in everything on television at least 12%.Also when our prime minister choosed 3 of 12 of his ministers as female he was a sexist but where he could choose of candiadtes was like 40% women and 1 women didn't wanted when she was choosed.Its like saying throwing a dice and it is 1 to 5 times of 12 times a 1,2 or 3 is a crime.
space hillbilly
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It's actually not that bad. Non-white fall victim to far more childhood sickness and death.Colonel_Reb said:
Also drug overdoses kill many more nonwhite teens. Plus all the gang violence gets their %.
Prisons are a big help in this regard, by taking young breeders out of the population...
Colonel_Reb
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Even those things aren't enough to compensate for minority population growth (especially the mestizos, etc.) and the decline in the percentage of the Whites US population. It is going to take a mass reversal of immigration policy and a mass change in regards to White attitudes, behavior and childbearing. The browns are out-breeding us plain and simple.
whiteathlete33
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lost said:
Yes, but when these hooligans get out of prison for even the shortest amount of time(few months) they breed with anything in sight. They end up with several kids and whitey ends up paying the tab for these kids.
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Colonel_Reb
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Good point, wa33.
whiteathlete33
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I've heard of blacks and Hispanics who have been incarcerated for most of their adult lives. Even so, they have four, five, and even six kids. The mother ends up taking care of these kids and you know it's with government money. Blacks don't breed nearly as much as Hispanics but they still increase steadily in numbers.
space hillbilly
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I understand what you and Colonel Reb are saying but we must remember that the anti-white forces love to broadcast this type of propaganda. Demoralizing white people is what they want more than anything. Also its a little patting themselves on the back for what they think is destorying white culture.whiteathlete33 said:
Does anybody think they will eversay "We have lost"???
In 1900 the white race made up the second largest racial groupe on the planet,
now after over sixty years of anti-white propaganda our race has fell to only the second largest racial group on the planet!
What has changed? Really nothing has changed..
The white race has survived the Huns, the bubonic plague, the golden horde, the Moors and berbers, the Muslims. So I believe they will survive a few pregnant Mexicans...
waterbed
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jaxvid said:
Interesting.
East asians are very good at copying from us.That technology will not get lost, from the technologies that are already here they can go a further in dept, althrough the development will slow down.The only thing is who will invent complete new things insights when whitey has left?
I wonder what the IQ was of east asians compared to whites if Creativety was measured too....
I dont want to talk always about soccer but also there I can't think of 1 move to beat an opponent inventend by a mongoloid.A dutch trainer told that they did play nearly all the same before western(whites) coaches were there.Nowadays they can too the copy of the Cruijff move(dutch move) the matthews(from a brit)trivela(spectuculiar shot with outside foot around the three quarter left or right of the underside ball from a white brazilian)and all other like 150 from which most dont have a name.
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More depressing news...
Census Shows Whites Lose Majority Among Babies
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" For the first time, more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are minorities, part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and fast-growing younger ethnic populations that could reshape government policies.
Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women â€" mostly single mothers â€" now exceeds African-American households with married couples, reflecting the trend of declining U.S. marriages overall.
The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer that provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and household relationships.
Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.
"We're moving toward an acknowledgment that we're living in a different world than the 1950s, where married or two-parent heterosexual couples are now no longer the norm for a lot of kids, especially kids of color," said Laura Speer, coordinator of the Kids Count project for the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation.
"It's clear the younger generation is very demographically different from the elderly, something to keep in mind as politics plays out on how programs for the elderly get supported," she said. "It's critical that children are able to grow to compete internationally and keep state economies rolling."
Currently, non-Hispanic whites make up just under half of all children 3 years old, which is the youngest age group shown in the Census Bureau's October 2009 annual survey, its most recent. In 1990, more than 60 percent of children in that age group were white.
William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the data, said figures in the 2009 survey can sometimes be inexact compared with the 2010 census, which queries the entire nation. But he said when factoring in the 2010 data released so far, minorities outnumber whites among babies under age 2.
The preliminary figures are based on an analysis of the Current Population Survey as well as the 2009 American Community Survey, which sampled 3 million U.S. households to determine that whites made up 51 percent of babies younger than 2. After taking into account a larger-than-expected jump in the minority child population in the 2010 census, the share of white babies falls below 50 percent.
Twelve states and the District of Columbia now have white populations below 50 percent among children under age 5 â€" Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Maryland, Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Mississippi. That's up from six states and the District of Columbia in 2000.
At current growth rates, seven more states could flip to "minority-majority" status among small children in the next decade: Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, South Carolina and Delaware.
By contrast, whites make up the vast majority of older Americans â€" 80 percent of seniors 65 and older and roughly 73 percent of people ages 45-64. Many states with high percentages of white seniors also have particularly large shares of minority children, including Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas and Florida.
In California, for instance, the median age for whites jumped from 40.3 in 2000 to 44.6 years old, even as the state's overall median age remained one of the nation's lowest at 35.2 due to minority births â€" a sign of the rapid race change under way, according to 2010 census data released Thursday. California's minorities now make up 58 percent of the state's population, up from 51 percent in 2000.
"The recent emergence of this cultural generation gap in states with fast growth of young Hispanics has spurred heated discussions of immigration and the use of government services," Frey said. "But the new census, which will show a minority majority of our youngest Americans, makes plain that our future labor force is absolutely dependent on our ability to integrate and educate a new diverse child population."
Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor and senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire, noted that much of the race change is being driven by increases in younger Hispanic women having more children than do white women, who have lower birth rates and as a group are moving beyond their prime childbearing years.
Because minority births are driving the rapid changes in the population, "any institution that touches or is impacted by children will be the first to feel the impact," Johnson said, citing as an example child and maternal health care that will have to be attentive to minorities' needs.
The numbers come amid public debate over hotly contested federal and state issues, from immigration and gay marriage to the rising cost of government benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid, that are resonating in different ways by region and demographics.
Alabama became the latest state this month to pass a wide-ranging anti-immigration law, which in part requires schools to report students' immigration status to state authorities. That follows tough immigration measures passed in similarly Republican-leaning states such as Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina.
But governors in Massachusetts, New York and Illinois, which long have been home to numerous immigrants, have opted out of the federal Secure Communities program that aims to deport dangerous criminals, saying it has made illegal immigrants afraid of reporting crimes to police. California may soon opt out as well.
States also are divided by region in their attitudes about old-age benefits and gay marriage, which is legal in five states and the District of Columbia.
Among African-Americans, U.S. households headed by women â€" mostly single mothers but also adult women living with siblings or elderly parents â€" represented roughly 30 percent of all African-American households, compared with the 28 percent share of married-couple African-American households. It was the first time the number of female-headed households surpassed those of married couples among any race group, according to census records reviewed by Frey dating back to 1950.
While the number of black single mothers has been gradually declining, overall marriages among blacks are decreasing faster. That reflects a broader U.S. trend of declining marriage rates as well as increases in non-family households made up of people living alone, or with unmarried partners or other non-relatives.
Female-headed households make up a 19 percent share among Hispanics and 9 percent each for whites and Asians.
Other findings:
â€"Multigenerational households composed of families with grandparents, parents and children were most common among Hispanics, particularly in California, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada and Texas, all states where they represented roughly 1 in 10 Latino households.
â€"Roughly 581,000, or a half percent, of U.S. households are composed of same-sex unmarried couples, representing nearly 1 in 10 households with unmarried partners. Unmarried gay couples made up the biggest shares in states in the Northeast and West, led by the District of Columbia, Oregon, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont. The largest numbers were in California and New York, which is now considering a gay marriage law.
â€"Minorities comprise a majority of renters in 10 states, plus the District of Columbia â€" Hawaii, Texas, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, Mississippi, New Jersey, Louisiana and New York.
Tony Perkins, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a conservative interest group, emphasized the economic impact of the decline of traditional families, noting that single-parent families are often the most dependent on government assistance.
"The decline of the traditional family will have to correct itself if we are to continue as a society," Perkins said, citing a responsibility of individuals and churches. "We don't need another dose of big government, but a new Hippocratic oath of 'do no harm' that doesn't interfere with family formation or seek to redefine family."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/23/ap/government/main20073579.shtml
Census Shows Whites Lose Majority Among Babies
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" For the first time, more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are minorities, part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and fast-growing younger ethnic populations that could reshape government policies.
Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women â€" mostly single mothers â€" now exceeds African-American households with married couples, reflecting the trend of declining U.S. marriages overall.
The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer that provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and household relationships.
Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the U.S. majority by midcentury.
"We're moving toward an acknowledgment that we're living in a different world than the 1950s, where married or two-parent heterosexual couples are now no longer the norm for a lot of kids, especially kids of color," said Laura Speer, coordinator of the Kids Count project for the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation.
"It's clear the younger generation is very demographically different from the elderly, something to keep in mind as politics plays out on how programs for the elderly get supported," she said. "It's critical that children are able to grow to compete internationally and keep state economies rolling."
Currently, non-Hispanic whites make up just under half of all children 3 years old, which is the youngest age group shown in the Census Bureau's October 2009 annual survey, its most recent. In 1990, more than 60 percent of children in that age group were white.
William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution who analyzed the data, said figures in the 2009 survey can sometimes be inexact compared with the 2010 census, which queries the entire nation. But he said when factoring in the 2010 data released so far, minorities outnumber whites among babies under age 2.
The preliminary figures are based on an analysis of the Current Population Survey as well as the 2009 American Community Survey, which sampled 3 million U.S. households to determine that whites made up 51 percent of babies younger than 2. After taking into account a larger-than-expected jump in the minority child population in the 2010 census, the share of white babies falls below 50 percent.
Twelve states and the District of Columbia now have white populations below 50 percent among children under age 5 â€" Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Maryland, Georgia, New Jersey, New York and Mississippi. That's up from six states and the District of Columbia in 2000.
At current growth rates, seven more states could flip to "minority-majority" status among small children in the next decade: Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, South Carolina and Delaware.
By contrast, whites make up the vast majority of older Americans â€" 80 percent of seniors 65 and older and roughly 73 percent of people ages 45-64. Many states with high percentages of white seniors also have particularly large shares of minority children, including Arizona, Nevada, California, Texas and Florida.
In California, for instance, the median age for whites jumped from 40.3 in 2000 to 44.6 years old, even as the state's overall median age remained one of the nation's lowest at 35.2 due to minority births â€" a sign of the rapid race change under way, according to 2010 census data released Thursday. California's minorities now make up 58 percent of the state's population, up from 51 percent in 2000.
"The recent emergence of this cultural generation gap in states with fast growth of young Hispanics has spurred heated discussions of immigration and the use of government services," Frey said. "But the new census, which will show a minority majority of our youngest Americans, makes plain that our future labor force is absolutely dependent on our ability to integrate and educate a new diverse child population."
Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor and senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire, noted that much of the race change is being driven by increases in younger Hispanic women having more children than do white women, who have lower birth rates and as a group are moving beyond their prime childbearing years.
Because minority births are driving the rapid changes in the population, "any institution that touches or is impacted by children will be the first to feel the impact," Johnson said, citing as an example child and maternal health care that will have to be attentive to minorities' needs.
The numbers come amid public debate over hotly contested federal and state issues, from immigration and gay marriage to the rising cost of government benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid, that are resonating in different ways by region and demographics.
Alabama became the latest state this month to pass a wide-ranging anti-immigration law, which in part requires schools to report students' immigration status to state authorities. That follows tough immigration measures passed in similarly Republican-leaning states such as Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina.
But governors in Massachusetts, New York and Illinois, which long have been home to numerous immigrants, have opted out of the federal Secure Communities program that aims to deport dangerous criminals, saying it has made illegal immigrants afraid of reporting crimes to police. California may soon opt out as well.
States also are divided by region in their attitudes about old-age benefits and gay marriage, which is legal in five states and the District of Columbia.
Among African-Americans, U.S. households headed by women â€" mostly single mothers but also adult women living with siblings or elderly parents â€" represented roughly 30 percent of all African-American households, compared with the 28 percent share of married-couple African-American households. It was the first time the number of female-headed households surpassed those of married couples among any race group, according to census records reviewed by Frey dating back to 1950.
While the number of black single mothers has been gradually declining, overall marriages among blacks are decreasing faster. That reflects a broader U.S. trend of declining marriage rates as well as increases in non-family households made up of people living alone, or with unmarried partners or other non-relatives.
Female-headed households make up a 19 percent share among Hispanics and 9 percent each for whites and Asians.
Other findings:
â€"Multigenerational households composed of families with grandparents, parents and children were most common among Hispanics, particularly in California, Maryland, Illinois, Nevada and Texas, all states where they represented roughly 1 in 10 Latino households.
â€"Roughly 581,000, or a half percent, of U.S. households are composed of same-sex unmarried couples, representing nearly 1 in 10 households with unmarried partners. Unmarried gay couples made up the biggest shares in states in the Northeast and West, led by the District of Columbia, Oregon, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont. The largest numbers were in California and New York, which is now considering a gay marriage law.
â€"Minorities comprise a majority of renters in 10 states, plus the District of Columbia â€" Hawaii, Texas, California, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, Mississippi, New Jersey, Louisiana and New York.
Tony Perkins, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, a conservative interest group, emphasized the economic impact of the decline of traditional families, noting that single-parent families are often the most dependent on government assistance.
"The decline of the traditional family will have to correct itself if we are to continue as a society," Perkins said, citing a responsibility of individuals and churches. "We don't need another dose of big government, but a new Hippocratic oath of 'do no harm' that doesn't interfere with family formation or seek to redefine family."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/23/ap/government/main20073579.shtml
Colonel_Reb
Hall of Famer
foobar75, thats the same article I posted a link to Wednesday. It is worth posting the text though. I sense a growing uneasiness with some Whites over this situation, but I have no clue if/how they will react/respond to it. I try to make as many people aware of these changes as possible while putting it in a negative light.
SeaJim
Guru
Whip out those penises men and lets get busy (with white women I hope)!! If you are not married or even if you are be a sperm donor for a white couple having problems conceiving. No over analyzing this news....lets get busy!! Edited by: SeaJim
Jimmy Chitwood
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the immediate consequence of a dwindling White population is we'll get more of this: principal delivered graduation speech in spanish, sparks debate.
at least some folks are speaking out.but to me, here's the relevantexcerpt from the article:
at least some folks are speaking out.but to me, here's the relevantexcerpt from the article:
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<div></div><div>The mexican takeover has been going on for a long time and no one in our country/government seemed to care. Spanish will continue to be pushed in schools around this country as the language of the "future". I work at a Junior High in Northbrook, Illinois, a rich northern suburb of Chicago. Here's an example of a poster lining its halls...</div><div></div><div>Jimmy Chitwood said:
whiteathlete33
Hall of Famer
More great news! My only question is who is going to help the negroes in Africa once whitey is a very small portion of the world? They won't be getting s-it from us.
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Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau:
India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around
2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third place,
with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates</span>
in two of the world's most economically and politically influential
countries, Japan and Russia, will cause them to fall from their current
positions as the 9th and 10th most populous nations, respectively, to
16th and 17th.
The findings are the result of population estimates and projections
of 228 countries compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data
Base (IDB). They offer a revealing look into the future. "One of the
biggest changes we've seen has been the decline in fertility in some developed countries</span>
such as China," says Loraine West , an IDB project manager, "while
others are experiencing a slight increase." In other words, China's
population boom is finally slowing down while Western Europe's
long-declining birth rate is - in some places, at least - rising
again. Spain and Italy are "on an uptick," says West, "but how high will
[the birth rate] rise? Or will it simply fluctuate up and down on some
long term level? We'll have to see." According to Italy's The National
Institute of Statistics, the country's recent population increase can be
largely attributed to its own immigrant population. See TIME's "Intelligent Cities.")</span>
The two countries on track to make the biggest population gains are
Nigeria and Ethiopia. Nigeria currently boasts 166 million people, but
by 2050 its population is expected jump to 402 million. Ethiopia's
population will likely triple from 91 million to 278 million, bringing
the east African nation into the one of the top 10 most populous
countries in the world for the first time. In fact, according to the
United Nations Population Division, although only 18% of the world's
population lives in so-called "high-fertility" countries (places where
women have more than 1.5 daughters on average), most of those countries
are in Africa; the continent is expected to experience significant
population growth in the coming decades, which could compound the
already-dire food supply issues in some African nations.
While the U.S. appears relatively stable - it's the only country in
the top 10 whose ranking is not expected to change in the next 40 years
- previous census reports have highlighted dramatic demographic shifts
within the country's borders. Last week, the Census Bureau announced
that more than half of children under two in the U.S. are ethnic
minorities. Add to that the non-Hispanic white population's increasing
age (in California, for example, the median age for non-Hispanic whites
is almost 10 years older than that of the state as a whole) and America
in 2050 will look a lot different than the America we know today. (See TIME's video: 10 Questions for Robert Groves.)</span>
Perhaps the most unfortunate change is the one currently experienced
by Russia. The cold, vast country has been undergoing steady
depopulation since 1992 and the U.S. Census Bureau expects it to decline
further, from 139 million people to 109 million by 2050. That's a 21%
drop, even more than country suffered during World War II. Like many
countries, Russia is experiencing declining birth rates, but it's also
suffering form a relatively low life expectancy. According to the World
Health Organization, Russian men have a life expectancy of just 62
years, a fact that is often attributed to the country's high rate of alcoholism
and poor diet. (For comparison, Japan is also struggling with
depopulation, but the World Health Organization puts its life expectancy
at 80 for men and 86 for women).
So what does this mean? The U.S. is not yet experiencing the kind of
population decline that Europe experienced in the 1990s and 2000s,
although immigration and differing birth rates among races means that
the country's ethnic composition is changing. Something similar will be
going on in the rest of the world, as well: Africa and India's boom,
Russia's decline and China's expected plateau (holding steady around 1.3
billion people between now and 2050) will change the makeup of the
estimated 9.4 billion people who will call Earth home in 2050. The
future, it seems, is not as distant as we think.
Edited by: whiteathlete33
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India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around
2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third place,
with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates</span>
in two of the world's most economically and politically influential
countries, Japan and Russia, will cause them to fall from their current
positions as the 9th and 10th most populous nations, respectively, to
16th and 17th.
The findings are the result of population estimates and projections
of 228 countries compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data
Base (IDB). They offer a revealing look into the future. "One of the
biggest changes we've seen has been the decline in fertility in some developed countries</span>
such as China," says Loraine West , an IDB project manager, "while
others are experiencing a slight increase." In other words, China's
population boom is finally slowing down while Western Europe's
long-declining birth rate is - in some places, at least - rising
again. Spain and Italy are "on an uptick," says West, "but how high will
[the birth rate] rise? Or will it simply fluctuate up and down on some
long term level? We'll have to see." According to Italy's The National
Institute of Statistics, the country's recent population increase can be
largely attributed to its own immigrant population. See TIME's "Intelligent Cities.")</span>
The two countries on track to make the biggest population gains are
Nigeria and Ethiopia. Nigeria currently boasts 166 million people, but
by 2050 its population is expected jump to 402 million. Ethiopia's
population will likely triple from 91 million to 278 million, bringing
the east African nation into the one of the top 10 most populous
countries in the world for the first time. In fact, according to the
United Nations Population Division, although only 18% of the world's
population lives in so-called "high-fertility" countries (places where
women have more than 1.5 daughters on average), most of those countries
are in Africa; the continent is expected to experience significant
population growth in the coming decades, which could compound the
already-dire food supply issues in some African nations.
While the U.S. appears relatively stable - it's the only country in
the top 10 whose ranking is not expected to change in the next 40 years
- previous census reports have highlighted dramatic demographic shifts
within the country's borders. Last week, the Census Bureau announced
that more than half of children under two in the U.S. are ethnic
minorities. Add to that the non-Hispanic white population's increasing
age (in California, for example, the median age for non-Hispanic whites
is almost 10 years older than that of the state as a whole) and America
in 2050 will look a lot different than the America we know today. (See TIME's video: 10 Questions for Robert Groves.)</span>
Perhaps the most unfortunate change is the one currently experienced
by Russia. The cold, vast country has been undergoing steady
depopulation since 1992 and the U.S. Census Bureau expects it to decline
further, from 139 million people to 109 million by 2050. That's a 21%
drop, even more than country suffered during World War II. Like many
countries, Russia is experiencing declining birth rates, but it's also
suffering form a relatively low life expectancy. According to the World
Health Organization, Russian men have a life expectancy of just 62
years, a fact that is often attributed to the country's high rate of alcoholism
and poor diet. (For comparison, Japan is also struggling with
depopulation, but the World Health Organization puts its life expectancy
at 80 for men and 86 for women).
So what does this mean? The U.S. is not yet experiencing the kind of
population decline that Europe experienced in the 1990s and 2000s,
although immigration and differing birth rates among races means that
the country's ethnic composition is changing. Something similar will be
going on in the rest of the world, as well: Africa and India's boom,
Russia's decline and China's expected plateau (holding steady around 1.3
billion people between now and 2050) will change the makeup of the
estimated 9.4 billion people who will call Earth home in 2050. The
future, it seems, is not as distant as we think.
Edited by: whiteathlete33