Mexico's birth rate, once among the world's highest, is in free-fall. In the 1960s Mexican mothers had nearly seven children each (whereas women in India then had fewer than six). The average now is just over two ...
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The rapid decline in the availability of Mexican workers couldn't come at a worse time for the United States which, like most of the developed world, is about to experience a demographic crisis -- a demographic cliff—the declining fertility rate in the United States. [The fertility rate is the number of children an average woman bears over the course of her life.] The fertility replacement rate is 2.1. Therefore, if the average woman has more children than that, the population grows; fewer children and it contracts. Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the fertility rate in America is 1.93. In fact, the fertility rate in America has not been above the replacement rate since the early 1970s. The results of this demographic reality are obvious: There are more old people than young and, over time, as the older population dies, the population contracts. As Last argues, “This dual problem—a population that is disproportionately old and shrinking overall—has enormous economic, political and cultural consequences.”
https://graceuniversity.edu/iip/2013/03/13-03-16-1/
The bottom line: We need all the Mexicans we can get -- and we need to get them before the supply runs out!
Read more at http://www.economist.com/node/15959332#rrYhGvI5542x8gde.99
The rapid decline in the availability of Mexican workers couldn't come at a worse time for the United States which, like most of the developed world, is about to experience a demographic crisis -- a demographic cliff—the declining fertility rate in the United States. [The fertility rate is the number of children an average woman bears over the course of her life.] The fertility replacement rate is 2.1. Therefore, if the average woman has more children than that, the population grows; fewer children and it contracts. Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the fertility rate in America is 1.93. In fact, the fertility rate in America has not been above the replacement rate since the early 1970s. The results of this demographic reality are obvious: There are more old people than young and, over time, as the older population dies, the population contracts. As Last argues, “This dual problem—a population that is disproportionately old and shrinking overall—has enormous economic, political and cultural consequences.”
https://graceuniversity.edu/iip/2013/03/13-03-16-1/
The bottom line: We need all the Mexicans we can get -- and we need to get them before the supply runs out!
