1960 vs 2020 population, various countries (huge population increase)

[Tooting Carmen]

Highest Growth: Turkey (+211%)

Lowest Growth: Hungary (+0.2%)

Highest Decline: Bulgaria (-12%)

Lowest Decline: Croatia (-2%)

Ireland is an especially notable one for population increase - since the 1990s more people have been coming in than leaving (mainly from the UK and Eastern Europe), and it is no longer the rural impoverished society it was until at least the 1970s.

[Tooting Carmen]

When my mother was a child growing up in Colombia in the 50s and 60s, it was not uncommon even for middle-class families to have up to five or six children. (She was the eldest of four). Nowadays, on the other hand...

[Nurzat]

When my mother was a child growing up in Colombia in the 50s and 60s, it was not uncommon even for middle-class families to have up to five or six children. (She was the eldest of four). Nowadays, on the other hand...

both mom and dad come from families of 4 children. however two of the sisters had 0 kids, the third one has 1 kid and my dad 1, so we are a total of 2 cousins from 4 people, a minus 50% decrease, while I've got 2 kids and my cousin has 0 and doesn't want to have kids. on my dad's side. while on my mom's side each sibling had 2 kids with exception of one who had 3 kids, and now we've started having 2 kids on average as well. so my Ukrainian side barely has kids and my Romanian/Moldovan side is on minimum replacement quote of 2 kids/family

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

with declining birth rates, especially in 1st world countries, these figures will be dramatically reversed in a couple of generations anyway

buying into the materialist, capitalist, consumerist lifestyle , as most of us are socially conditioned to from day one, doesn't involve having large families

[Ion Basescul]

country, 1960 population vs 2020 population (in millions)

Moldova, 2.0 vs 2.6

etc

In Moldova the growth wasn't natural, but due to huge immigration stimulated by Soviet authorities. When the union broke up, the population stood at 4 million people, and now it's at 2.6 million. IMF forecasts predict 2.3 million by 2026.

[JamesBond007]

Though you wouldn't have known it, given the rhetoric by both WNs on the Right and dogooders on the Left, there has actually been significant convergence between the Global North and Global South over the past few decades on a number of measurements: not just birth rates but also life expectancy; infant mortality rates; income levels; literacy rates; numeracy rates; proportions of people who have access to electricity/water/gas/sanitation/telephones/televisions; proportions of people who attend higher education...

Egalitarians assume their critics are racist but some of us are not White nationalists and simply concerned with the course of a nation when it is navigated by child-like adults that believe in fantasies such as all races or equal or races don't exist and that sex is not biologically determined at birth due to chromosomes i.e.. LGBQT fantasies.

[Tooting Carmen]

Egalitarians assume their critics are racist but some of us are not White nationalists and simply concerned with the course of a nation when it is navigated by child-like adults that believe in fantasies such as all races or equal or races don't exist and that sex is not biologically determined at birth due to chromosomes i.e.. LGBQT fantasies.

OK I agree that races do exist, but then what explains the rise of China and to a somewhat lesser extent India in recent decades? For that matter, before at least the 15th century, China in particular was more developed than most of Europe. This idea that Europe will always be number one and always has been is really ahistorical.