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Australia is not on the brightest of trajectories for stability at present. Who needs a brutal civil war to set you back when you just stop replacing your popul
by VaedaStrike 13y ago
Australia is not on the brightest of trajectories for stability at present. Who needs a brutal civil war to set you back when you just stop replacing your population? At a bit under 1.8 total fertility rate they're doing to their country, over the next generation, the equivalent of loosing 15% of their population, far more than we've lost in any single war. If the numbers on the civil war are correct, with 2% of the US population lost on the front lines, the present demographic condition of Australia will have more than seven times the impact on their society as the US Civil War had on ours in terms of lives not realized.
- jacques_chester 13y agoAustralia's population is growing at 1.6% pa.
- halostatue 13y agoAustralia is also, like Canada and the U.S. itself, an immigrant nation, making the importance of population replacement rates less important (the U.S. is around 1.9 right now, but second-generation and later fertility rates are below the replacement rate; immigrant and first-generation fertility rates are above the replacement rate, averaging out but resulting in the demographic shift that is disturbing certain folks among red states right now).