Birth Rates Tick Up in the English Speaking World

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The birthrate of the developed world has stopped plummeting, at least in those areas that speak English. The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Germany studied 37 of the world's leading economic powers and found that Great Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland have boosted their births enough to stave off a drop in population. That conflicts with previous estimates, which did not account for the fact that women are having children later in life. This may have set those calculations off by as much as 20 percent, the group stated. “These results suggest that the long-term fertility decline in the developed world has come to an end or at least stalled,” the study concluded. “[This] confirms that much of the very low fertility is the result of later, not less, childbearing.” The U.S. birthrate dropped below replacement level in 2010. Much of America's booming births are attributable to immigrants, who made up 80 percent of all U.S. population growth between 2002 and 2012.

I have to admit that when I first read the headline on this article I was somewhat skeptical precisely because of the demographic shifts that have taken place in these same countries over the past 20 years, and that last line in the quote from the article confirmed that suspicion. It's no secret that western culture has chosen the pathway to good times, and the mass distribution of contraception and abortion since the early 1960's have triggered a collapse of birth rates all across this region of the world. In the U.S. it has been a flood of immigrants from South America that has fueled the stagnant population growth over the last several decades, while Europe has been depending on immigrants from Africa and the Middle East as a dependent underclass to help fund the giant socialist state. The problem is still the same, low birth rates from indigenous populations combined with high birthrates from immigrants continues the fundamental shift of values that is affecting most of western society. I'll be keeping an eye out for this study to see if we can gather some more details into the potential good news, but until we confirm with certainty that these increases in birthrates are not coming just from immigrants, there's very little to celebrate here.