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Demographic Decline: France Sees Lowest Number of Births Since WWII
Breitbart ^ | 01/18/2024 | KURT ZINDULKA

Posted on 01/18/2024 7:01:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The number of births in France has fallen to its lowest level since the Second World War in a grim indicator of Western demographic collapse.

Figures released this week from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) reported that 678,000 babies were born in France last year, a decline of 48,000 over 2022 and the lowest of any year since 1946.

As with other countries in the West, France has long faced a declining birth rate, falling nearly every year since 2010 when 832,799 babies were born in the country, approximately 20 per cent higher than in 2023. However, according to Insee, the speed of decline has been increasing, with the birth rate standing at 1.68 children per woman in 2023, compared to 1.79 in 2022 and 1.99 in 2013.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: births; decline; demographic; europe; france; wwii
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France is toast
1 posted on 01/18/2024 7:01:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is an old cartoon showing the French in a zoo and being surrounded by a bunch of Third worlders looking down upon them. I think the demographic decline was noted before WWII.


2 posted on 01/18/2024 7:03:51 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what the Muslim birthrate is in France. Probably much higher than the native French.


3 posted on 01/18/2024 7:09:09 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasea)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Problem #1) There are too many people. The earth cannot sustain so many billions of people.
Problem #2) There are not enough people. Nations face collapse as births decline.

Bottomline: You need to panic about something. Doesn’t matter what.


4 posted on 01/18/2024 7:09:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ChicagoConservative27
France is toast

What kind of toast?

5 posted on 01/18/2024 7:10:20 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This assumes that the Total Fertility Rate will remain below 2.1 (The rate needed to maintain the native population). It may, but it may not. Even if not, having a sound modest (to small) immigration rate can still preserve one’s culture. IT just takes leaders who are just as interested in maintaining the traditional culture as appeasing the Chamber of Commerce. And that doesn’t seem to be the case in most Western nations.


6 posted on 01/18/2024 7:13:06 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What happened to the book I was forced to read in High School, titled The Population Bomb?
7 posted on 01/18/2024 7:16:31 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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?Problem #1) There are too many people. The earth cannot sustain so many billions of people.
Problem #2) There are not enough people. Nations face collapse as births decline.

Bottomline: You need to panic about something. Doesn’t matter what.

Remind you about another 'crisis' that has two similar choices regarding the global temperature?

8 posted on 01/18/2024 7:18:17 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Western women hate white men, motherhood, god, their families, their cultures and their countries. We’ve filled these women with extreme narcissism, hatred and apathy.


9 posted on 01/18/2024 7:20:40 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Jeff Chandler

French Toast?

It was called “German Toast,” BTW here in America until WWI and anti-German sentiments.


10 posted on 01/18/2024 7:23:55 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’ve seen it in Russia, in China, and now in the (neo) Marxist West

Humans do not, and will not, reproduce in post-modern, socialist/marxist societies

Such ideologies create division among people, divides the sexes, destroys the family and civil society, and creates existential doubt. Add to that, it creates economic hardship which discourages reproduction.

its fundamentally anti-human, and humans respond to such negative stimuli.


11 posted on 01/18/2024 7:25:40 AM PST by PGR88
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Western women hate white men, motherhood, god, their families, their cultures and their countries.

Tucker Carlson said this on his TV program back then. "The Great Replacement Theory".

You isolate the Western Men. Then you import new voters from the Third World. Then they will be the new slaves.

The Western Men would resist the agenda. So all the Left had to do was to isolate the Western Men by peeling away their women away from them.

Mission accomplished.

12 posted on 01/18/2024 7:29:14 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jonty30

Colonialism has its drawbacks.


13 posted on 01/18/2024 7:34:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bigg Red

I went to a restaurant that serves Breakfast Any Time. So I ordered French Toast during The Renaissance - Steven Wright.


14 posted on 01/18/2024 7:35:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jonty30

Wait for the BIG WAR—the Ugly War that will stack up the bodies. Then will come the big Baby Boom of 2030!


15 posted on 01/18/2024 9:07:04 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

France and Hungary have tried pro-Natalist subsidies and have failed to show results.


16 posted on 01/18/2024 9:08:14 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: Blennos

“France’s white, or native, birthrate at 1.4 children per woman, compared with a Muslim rate of 3.4 to 4 children.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/26/muslim-majority-in-france-projected-in-40-years/


17 posted on 01/18/2024 9:10:52 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever https://www.timesofisrael war again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just spent this last Xmas to New Year in Paris visiting my daughter, son in law and 3 and a half year old granddaughter who live there for my son in law’s work. I can confirm, there were not a lot of little ones running around.


18 posted on 01/18/2024 10:57:36 AM PST by Shark24
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To: dfwgator

😁


19 posted on 01/18/2024 1:14:53 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Shark24

bkmk


20 posted on 01/18/2024 1:32:41 PM PST by linMcHlp
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