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2013-07-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

The world's Africa-driven demographic future in 9 charts

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Posted by ryuge 2013-07-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I expect the four horsemen will have something to say.

Posted by phil_b 2013-07-17 06:21|| 2013-07-17 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting. Immigration helps the U.S. to do what very few other countries, including China, has yet figured out: how to be a rich country with a growing population.

Also intriguing is the US continues to expand its dependent class - the poor. I didn't see that in the charts.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-17 06:29|| 2013-07-17 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I spoke too soon. The last chart touches on the "Dependency Ratio". Not exactly the "poor", just the young and the old, who are dependent on others.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-17 06:33|| 2013-07-17 06:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, because we all know that trends continue forever without variance.

Posted by Iblis 2013-07-17 12:29|| 2013-07-17 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry I cant make heads or tails out of these charts, they say they chart one thing, and then the chart shows another. (Just a Redneck, I suppose) but to me ALL the charts seem to suddenly jump upward, and then say "STEADY", or worse to peak, then say "NOT peaking", I surrender, they're screwed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-07-17 13:44|| 2013-07-17 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 It would be intersting if a wave of immigrants from Africa arrived to the US. Without the baggage of slavery. Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-07-17 14:38|| 2013-07-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 "Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?"

There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants. The problem in the US born black community is not racism. It's US black culture.

Posted by Iblis 2013-07-17 15:18|| 2013-07-17 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Nigeria is screwed. 1 billion people in the area the size of Texas? Whoa! Today a failed state with lots of money and graft. When the oil runs out a failed state with land denuded and no oil. What could go wrong?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-07-17 20:17|| 2013-07-17 20:17|| Front Page Top

#9 There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants.

Anecdotal to be sure, but I've worked with a number of Africans and Jamaicans who were openly contemptuous of American blacks.

And ditto to what iblis said in #4. Ah, the joy of drawing a straight line on a logarithmic graph,

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-17 21:02|| 2013-07-17 21:02|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem with the dependency chart and the prediction that England and France will continue to "benefit" from Immigration is that there are two kinds of Immigration: smart and stupid. Smart immigration is carefully screening applicants and letting in people "who can help row the boat". Stupid immigration is letting "applicants" jump the line, violate the law, get on welfare, get their behavior legalized by "immigration reform", and let them "refuse to help row the boat".

The "under 15" demographic didn't ask to be born and thus is our responsibility to "row the boat" while they get old enough to help "row the boat". The over 65, for the most part in the United States, are those on SS who "rowed the boat" in the past while we were "under 15", and so DESERVE a well-earned rest (doubly so to those who "protected and defended the boat"). And there are those who "can't row the boat" due to verifiable health issues.

Its the ones who are "able to row the boat but don't" who are the problem, and England and France are getting those in spades. In fact, the ones they are getting are those who are "trying to sink the boat".

Posted by Ptah 2013-07-17 21:50|| 2013-07-17 21:50|| Front Page Top

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