[Jack Hydrazine]

As the US fertility rate decreases the population will continue to rise. Is that correct?

Sounds very similar to the climate changers. As the globe decreases in temperature the Earth’s climate will keep heating up.

That’s the ticket!

[Sherman Logan]

Immigration, dude.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Population growth doesn't depend only on present overall fertility rate. It also depends on immigration and demographic age structure (as shown in those charts.)

Most immigrants are in, or entering into their fertile years--- that is,they are mostly infant through 30, with a heavy chunk in the late teens/early 20's category and the "mean" age for females under 18; whereas for native-born Americans, the mean age for the females is over 38 --- way past prime childbearing years.

So no matter what the overall USA fertility rate is NOW, we can confidently predict it is going to go up as the native-borns die off and the immigrants --- well, do the math. Particularly the multiplication.

Then they'll get into the birth control-abortion-and-buggery program, i.e. the American Way of Life --- and the whole growth sector will be Mormons, Old-Order Mennonites, and --- oh yes, Muslims. Whee.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That 10% was supposed to be ~100%. Typo.

[kabar]

As the US fertility rate decreases the population will continue to rise. Is that correct?

According to the Census Bureau, we have a net gain of one person every 12 seconds. Do you challenge that estimate? Do you think the US has a declining population?

According to the 2000 census, this country had 281 million people. We now have 319 million. In less than 15 years we have added 38 million people to our population equal to the population of our most populous state, California.