[Cowboy Bob]

I wonder what impact the collapse of the Chinese economy will have on Asian immigration?

If their economy collapses, they won't be filling our universities, or buying property in California...at least not on the current scale.

Why do people always take a trend and stretch it out for 50-100 years? Nothing always goes in a straight line.

[kearnyirish2]

Here in NJ we also have a LOT of Asians from the subcontinent; NJ will be one of the first states to be completely Asian/Hispanic.

[Ben Ficklin]

"Why do people always take a trend and stretch it out for 50-100 years"

Some people get paid to do that, demographers and staticians.

There are about 7 billion on earth now, and the projections show that will grow to 11 billion by 2100 then level off.

There are 4 billion in Asia, 1 billion in Africa, 1 billion in Europe/Russia, and 1 billion in the Americas.

By 2050, Asia will add a fifth billion and Africa will add a second billion for a 9 billion total.

By 2100, Africa will add a 3rd and 4th billion for a total of 11 billion.

Its simply a matter measuring birth/fertility rates and projecting that out as the population "fills up".

CIA Factbook table of country comparison of fertility rate in descending order