Demographics

Faction head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Ralph Brinkhaus has predicted the country could see a Muslim chancellor by as early as 2030.

Norway’s statistical agency says it has recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century, with the country’s family minister acknowledging that it is a problem.

A group of UK women worried about “ecological Armageddon” are urging others to sign up to a pact pledging not to have children.

Victor Davis Hanson likened President Donald Trump to “chemotherapy” used to cure the “cancer” of America’s “permanent political class.”

Ann Coulter lamented Republican weakness in the face of accusations of “racism” from Democrats and leftists in a Breitbart News interview.

Antwerp will soon be “lost” to the hope of any future conservative government, local media said as data showed only a quarter of the city’s young children are Belgian natives, and studies revealed migrant background voters overwhelmingly supporting left-wing parties.

French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has claimed that the populist movement in Europe has largely been a reaction to demographic changes, blaming German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Swedish embassy in Hungary has protested “personal attacks” from Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen toward a Swedish minister who compared the country’s new family policy to 1930’s Germany.

China’s authoritarian government has been sending mixed signals about population control to the populace. On one hand, the government admits it faces a demographic crisis that can only be solved by increased fertility rates and large families, sending signals to the public that having two or three children is now their patriotic duty. On the other hand, a couple from the eastern province of Shandong is suffering steep fines and persecution for the crime of birthing a third child.

Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó has described how his country has rejected multiculturalism and mass migration and as a solution to demographic and labour market challenges, favouring a more socially cohesive society and policies which support local people to raise families and up-skill.

Belgian Senator and former Secretary-General of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Alain Destexhe has slammed “elites” for their handling of mass migration and the lack of debate on the long-term effects of migration.

VICE’s French website has celebrated the young people of France who have opted to get themselves permanently sterilised to “save the world.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday downplayed the significance of new data suggesting China has entered a period of significant population decline, essentially arguing that China’s prosperity over the past few decades has little to do with the size of its workforce.

China’s effort to perform a U-turn on its notorious population control policies and stave off demographic collapse continued this week with a new report warning of negative population growth by 2030 unless Chinese couples begin having the children they would have been arrested for conceiving just a few years ago.

An expert think tank has accused the government of pandering to big business rather than heeding the desires of voters in its post-Brexit immigration system, which it says has the effect of opening Britain’s borders even wider.

A study released by the Austrian Integration Fund has revealed that as many as 20 per cent of Austria’s residents were born overseas and more than half of them come from non-EU countries.

An academic has hailed mass migration and the coming artificial intelligence revolution as reasons not to fear plummeting fertility rates in Western countries, wherein most it has long stood below replacement rate. 

Migration Watch UK has suggested “immigration-driven population growth” is to blame for London’s status as the second-most gridlocked city in Europe after Moscow.

Sweden’s housing shortage has now reached a new record for the capital city of Stockholm where 636,000 people are in the queue for municipal housing with only a mere 85 vacant properties available.

British government statistics show that net arrivals from the European Union are at their lowest since 2014, but this has not stopped rising immigration from the rest of the world continuing to push the United Kingdom’s population upward.

The French overseas region of Mayotte has reported that the indigenous Shimaore-speakers of the island have now become a minority due to the rapid number of illegal migrants arriving on the island in recent years.

A majority of Germans say the level of mass migration has left them feeling “like a stranger in their own country”, according to a new study.

Soaring birth rates in developing nations are fuelling a global baby boom while women in dozens of richer countries aren’t producing enough children to maintain population levels there, according to figures released Friday.

The Hungarian government began a new national survey this week to tackle the problem of the country’s declining population without resorting to a policy of mass migration.

Hungary is preparing to hold a country-wide national consultation on its family policy, which has already resulted in an increase in marriage and a decline in abortion and divorce.

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is proposing to build a million homes between Oxford and Cambridge, with campaigners claiming the plan would lead to the destruction of 67,000 acres of greenfield countryside.

The population of Germany is rapidly transforming according to a new study which shows low birthrates, high emigration, and mass immigration have led to a dramatic decrease in the number of native Germans in the country.

Sweden Democrats MP Richard Jomshof has warned that without any change in policy, native Swedes will become a minority in their own country.

A prominent archbishop has told Italians they need “young people who come from elsewhere in order to begin a new history,” as the native population ages.

Swedish women are having fewer children, according to newly released statistics, with local women having children at later ages on average while migrant women have a higher birthrate than native Swedes.