Immigration is the only thing that has maintained population growth.
India is outgrowing everyone.
And Life Expectancy aligned to Excess Deaths, which powerfully asserted themselves beginning 2020 in essentially perfect sync to Covid deaths.
India and Africa are the populations of the future.
If they ever get their act together. The West and the East (Asia) will eventually figure out a way to stabilize their populations.
Why is population growth either a good thing or even necessary?
India is a craphole that all Indians want to leave. Why do you think they come here?
When the US had 100 million fewer people rents were cheap, home ownership was easy, the freeways easy to navigate and people were far happier. When did crowding become a desirable future?
The birthrate collapse is directly due to the high cost of family formation. Having eight kids was not unusual three generations ago. Then it was 4, then 3, now maybe one or none. Why?
The cost.
And then you have the twin evils: Ehrlich’s overpopulation BS and abortion. The easy way out! Why reproduce, right? Bad for the environment and socially limiting.
Better to just import the world’s excess. Best of all, they will get racial preferences for everything: schools, jobs, political spoils. Yet again another reason not to reproduce if you’re ethnic American! Your own government - you know, all the dimwitted brats who trailed you in school - made up a bunch of regulations that marginalized you in your own country in the name of “racial justice”. Translation: your kids come in last.
So why reproduce? How will you explain an insane world like that to your kids?
Since 2000, the US has added over 50 million people. Labor participation rates are around 62%. We don’t have a population problem. Importing millions of immigrants, most of whom are unskilled, is not the answer.
Europeans and their descendants are not reproducing themselves. Politicians see their power and money waning, and so they encourage people with a known astronomically high birth rate to come to the USA where they can live off the money produced by the descendants of Europeans who go to work faithfully every day to pay the taxes that go to the breeders who are streaming through the borders and who will vote for the politicians who let them in to replace the descendants of Europeans.
Meanwhile, the descendants of Europeans walk around with their fingers up their noses, unaware that they are paying their replacements to replace them.