> Immigration is definitely not the answer. I agree with this but not for the reason you provide. Immigration isn't the answer simply because there aren't eno

> Immigration is definitely not the answer. I agree with this but not for the reason you provide. Immigration isn't the answer simply because there aren't enough immigrants in the world -- and the number will continue to decline over time as living standards increase in the developing world. Just look at the numbers of immigrants needed. There are 250 million immigrants in the world today. Japan alone is forecast to lose 1 million people a year for the next 30 years. Italy is losing 150,000 people a year. Spain 100,000. Hungary 60,000. Bulgaria 50,000. China is projected to lose more people to the fertility crash than there are immigrants in the world. If every single immigrant went to China, China's population would still go down. While depriving every other country of immigrants. (US population would also start going down in this scenario, since it would lose out on the 2 million annual immigrants that make up for low native fertility.) Immigration is, at best, a short-term solution over the next ~20 years because it is ultimately a zero-sum game. For one country to get more immigrants, another country has to get fewer.