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America has more 60-somethings than children under 10
Washington Examiner ^ | May 25, 2023 | Timothy P. Carney

Posted on 05/31/2023 3:06:31 PM PDT by Twotone

America has fewer children now than it did 10 years ago. That’s not in terms of percentages but raw numbers. New Census Bureau data released on Thursday show how the age pyramid of the United States is looking less like a pyramid and more like an upside-down onion or a vase.

America has more people in their 60s than we have under age 10.

We’ll get to that onion-vase in a minute, but let’s just start with the minor shortage, which was discovered in the most recent census .

“In 2020, there were over 73.1 million children under age 18,” the Census Bureau said , “down 1.4% from 74.2 million in 2010. The biggest decline was among the under-5 age group, whose share of the population dropped by 8.9% or 1.8 million.”

Every year, we have fewer and fewer children.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: demographics
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1 posted on 05/31/2023 3:06:31 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

All part of the plan.


2 posted on 05/31/2023 3:07:20 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Right Brother

Does this include our new illegal invader buddies?


3 posted on 05/31/2023 3:08:27 PM PDT by albie
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To: Twotone

Literally one third of the people conceived in the U.S. in the past 50 years was aborted away.


4 posted on 05/31/2023 3:08:54 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Took decades of “over population” propaganda to get people to not have children. So it’s going to take decades more to reverse it (if its possible).


5 posted on 05/31/2023 3:11:54 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Tell It Right

Judgment. Let it come.


6 posted on 05/31/2023 3:12:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Twotone
“In 2020, there were over 73.1 million children under age 18,”

And they all voted for Biden.

7 posted on 05/31/2023 3:19:26 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Twotone

Pretty much everything that is leading to the decline of this great nation has/had its genesis in the Democrat party.


8 posted on 05/31/2023 3:19:43 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Twotone

Abortion kills the next generations.


9 posted on 05/31/2023 3:19:48 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD? (Psalm 33:12))
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To: neverevergiveup
Pretty much everything that is leading to the decline of this great nation has/had its genesis in the Democrat party.

And their Republican flunkies.

10 posted on 05/31/2023 3:20:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Twotone

11 posted on 05/31/2023 3:22:29 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-AaA)
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To: Twotone

Not surprising. With the exception of Israel, every developed nation in the world has a birth rate below the replacement rate. Even the wealthier southern states in India now have birth rates below the replacement rate. We’re witnessing a world-wide depopulation, while the leftists and enviro-cultists continue babbling mindlessly about over-population,


12 posted on 05/31/2023 3:23:28 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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O noes.. pay people to have children stat. It’s the only way.


13 posted on 05/31/2023 3:23:45 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: Twotone

The Census Bureau was politicized when Obuma moved it into control of the White House. Believe nothing it claims.


14 posted on 05/31/2023 3:24:19 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Twotone
Don't worry, the WEF will do something about the over 60.

15 posted on 05/31/2023 3:29:21 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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16 posted on 05/31/2023 3:31:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: momincombatboots

We’ve been doing that for 50 years ... but only certain types of people ...


17 posted on 05/31/2023 3:32:24 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Twotone
Hysteria about this type of thing usually accompanies rushes at the border and urges for pathways to citizensR.I.P.

But when I hear low birth rate hysteria my response is it presents all the more urgency to deport illegal aliens and other foreign swarmers.

18 posted on 05/31/2023 3:33:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s a big part of it.


19 posted on 05/31/2023 3:37:52 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Twotone

Part of this is people’s attitudes apart from concerns about overpopulation.

Some young people simply do not want to have children. They do not consider marriage and family to be important life goals.

They do not want to be tied down by children or a spouse.


20 posted on 05/31/2023 3:38:34 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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