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Originally posted by octothorp@Nov 5 2004, 06:25 PM
Interesting article on Russia, Cowperson. I definitely saw that in effect when I was in Siberia back a few years ago.
I'd be very interested to know what the predictions are for Canada. I seem to recall reading recently that the Canadian population would actually be in decline were it not for immigration. It wouldn't suprise me if, 300 years from now, we were only at about 38 million or so.
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Another interesting country to look at is Japan, which, I think, is fairly racially homogenous and has little immigration, a low birth rate and an aging population.
The USA and Canada are fairly aggressive importers of people from around the world.
Will Europe and Japan have to make that same transition. Can their cultures stand it?
In roughly 1970, National Geographic had an issue exploring population trends which I'm pretty sure hinted at 7 billion by 2000. We ended up a little short of that. I'll look the issue up when I get home - an inheritance from my father, NG's from 1963 onward.
Cowperson