Over the past three years, I’ve seen three separate studies (German statistical office, private economic foundation, and some university study). They all say basically the same thing for Germany. Population of today is 81-million. In twenty years, unless something changes....the population will be 65 to 68 million. Even if they take 250,000 a year (the normal average for each year over the past 20 years)...it doesn’t change anything much.
So this idea of 450,000 to 1,000,000? Yearly? Three or four years out of the next ten? It might slow down the population spiral some but it’ll still be less than 80 million in 20 years.
The chief issues for this spiral? It goes to women who want a career, a high cost of living, high taxation, urbanization, and increasing housing cost. I won’t ID socialism as the sole issue in this because of the various ways that the economy is built.
I live in Germany, so I can speak to this whole fundamental problem.
My Palatine German ancestors were from Oberstein and Rohrbach...about 15 miles apart..
I had planned to visit both towns sometimes but the sight of those young military fit moslems marching up through Germany last year changed my mind for me..
My ancestors were farmers and left Germany for England because of the years of droughts not because of war or politics..
My many greats granddad planned to return some day and wanted his children to marry other Lutheran Germans so they would go too...
He was however appreciative and loyal to the monarch who sent his family to America and in 1711 he fought in one of Queen Anne’s several French and Indian wars just one year after arriving in Albany, NY...