
The Congressional Budget Office has released new demographic projections, and they're alarming. Fertility is so low that U.S. population growth is predicted to be entirely due to immigration by the early-2030s. https://t.co/58BoXjNCrW

By contrast, much of Western Europe and parts of Asia have an elderly bulge; in Asia, less than 25 percent of the population is under fifteen and nearly 10 percent is sixty-five and over. (Some 27 percent of Japanese people are over sixty-five.) This increases the burden on those who are of working age (because they need to care for many others) an
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Century Initiative, a diverse nonpartisan network of Canadians from the business, academic, and charitable sectors, calls for Canada to triple its population from thirty-eight million to one hundred million people by the year 2100, in order to increase Canadian innovation, economic stability, and influence on the world stage.