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473 sats \ 1 reply \ @Yermin 23 Apr

If you run this same logic inside the U.S.:

White Americans are older (median age ~44) with lower fertility (~1.57), while Hispanic Americans are younger (median age ~30) with higher fertility (~1.97), and immigration skews heavily non-white.

Black Americans are closer to the middle on age and fertility (~1.64), so their share stays relatively stable.

Net: fewer white births + more non-white births/inflows → a declining white share, especially in younger cohorts.

That’s the mechanism behind the “losing the country” feeling.

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Add to that the trend of declining life expectancy amongst whites and this pattern is even more striking.

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They should do this right and show which countries have greater natality rates than mortality. Decent estimates of both numbers are available at the national level.

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Yeah but as a map because maps are cool

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There's no map version, and honestly, I don't even see how you'd map those two values out. Like, what’s the relation between them?

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You'd map the difference. Birth rate - death rate = non-migration growth rate.

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I thought we were all sterilized by now?
Every time a man talks to me all my reproductive organs astral projection somewhere else

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So basically Africa owns the next generation of labour force

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Fertility in Africa is falling just as rapidly as everywhere else.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Oxy 23 Apr -50 sats

The teal to orange shift suggests a transition from population explosion concerns to labor shortage and pension sustainability challenges for most of the world.