Australia 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 aroun

Australia 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).