For a day in Feb, German news got all hyped up because there was a .01-percent bump up on the birth-rate noted over the past year....which they tied to the incoming immigrant crowd.
The thing is...if you look across the last three years...for immigrants, migrants and asylum-seekers...I think the ratio is like 7 men to each women, that comes in. It’s better statistics for the under-18 crowd...but there’s just nothing that’s going to change the birth-rate.
I read a piece last month which noted that you’d need a 2.1 birth-rate to just maintain things at a balanced rate. Anything below 2.1 means your population is decreasing. Portugal with it’s 10.3-million population is probably looking at 5-million within the next fifty years. With my spreadsheet, you can figure they will be down to the last 10,000 residents in about 600 years.