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Originally Posted by Jim Bremner
A country needs greater than 2.8 baby's per couple in order to grow $$$ There's never been a country with a low birthrate that has grown$$$
This is why we're getting Amnesty for Illegal aliens shoved down our throat.
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Maybe the real problem is we "native born" Americans aren't having enough kids. If we didn't have all the immigrants our population would be shrinking which in the long run is bad news for everyone.
If a country's birthrate is not above the replacement rate you get a rapidly ageing population - more old people which must be supported by fewer younger workers and a stagnating economy. Japan in particular and several European countries are facing this huge problem. Japan, Russia and several of these countries have very low birth rates and zero growth from immigration.
From wikipedia:
The total fertility rate in the United States after World War II peaked at about 3.8 children per woman in the late 1950s and by 1999 was at 2 children. This means that an imaginary woman (defined in the introduction) who fast-forwarded through her life in the late 1950s would have been expected to have about four children, whereas an imaginary woman who fast-forwarded through her life in 1999 would have been expected to have only about two children in her lifetime. The fertility rate of the total U.S. population is at around the replacement level of about 2.1 children per woman. However, the fertility of the population of the United States is below replacement among those native born, and above replacement among immigrant families, most of whom come to the U.S. from countries with higher fertility than that of the U.S.[citation needed] However, the fertility rates of immigrants to the U.S. have been found to decrease sharply in the second generation, correlating with improved education and income.[7]