In Europe, 24 percent of the people are 60 and over, and no
country has a birthrate sufficient to maintain current population sizes. Who
but immigrants can work and fund Europe’s welfare states for its graying
publics?
The United Nations’ World Population Prospects says that
only 10 percent of global population is in Europe, which is projected to have
fewer people in 2050 than today. Just 16 percent of the world’s population is
in Africa, but “more than half of global population growth between now and 2050
is expected to occur” there. It will have the world’s highest growth rate, and
41 percent of its people currently are under 15.
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