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2026-06-24 15:35 UTC
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@iocase@lemmy.zip 2026-06-25 05:32
That’s a bandaid fix. Everyone is repopulating except like 5 African countries which are going to enter their own negative birth rates in 15 years if they continue developing. Im Canadian and India crossed into negative birth rates a few years ago. The average age in India is almost 30 now With a population of 1.45B people, India has a median age of 29.5 years which makes it the 108/196 oldest country. 24.6% of the demographic are children 0-14 years old, 68.2% are working-age people aged 15-64, and 7.15% are older population aged 65+ years Source What this means is A) average age is going to go up roughly 1 year every year B) the average age in India will be roughly 38 or so in 10 years Eventually even they are too old and you’re importing a demographic they desperately want to retain domestically. Same with the Phillipines and other emigrant nations. At what point are we just colonizing other nations through immigration? When their best and brightest all leave the country to earn more in a foreign country, start a family there, and the only thing they give back is a remittance. Any kids they would have had are citizens of their new home nation and they’re probably not going back (statistically the supermajority) while their home country dips into negative birth rates and having never developed industrially to support a massive cohort of elderly people. Hilariously I could see a point where an immigrant takes any net benefit they provide in a foreign nation and use it to support their own elderly parents and grand parents in their home country. The entire planet one giant retirement home…