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Mass Immigration Lowers Fertility | Compact

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Policymakers and analysts across the West believe that immigration is the solution to the problem of low fertility. If natives won’t produce enough of the next generation, the difference will simply have to be imported. This wisdom bursts forth every time immigration restriction rears its head. Low-fertility countries, it is said, require large levels of immigration to stave off population decline, rapid aging, and economic decrepitude. But the recent experience of Czechia casts doubt on this common sense. Immigration, particularly at levels large enough to make a demographic difference, is not a solution to demographic decline but instead its accelerant. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Czechia experienced a typical post-Communist demographic crisis. Every year from 1995 to 2002 the country’s population shrank. Between 1994 and 2005 deaths outnumbered births as the country’s total fertility rate—a projection of the number of children the average woman alive today will have over her lifet

Policymakers and analysts across the West believe that immigration is the solution to the problem of low fertility. If natives won’t produce enough of the next generation, the difference will simply have to be imported. This wisdom bursts forth every time immigration restriction rears its head. Low-fertility countries, it is said, require large levels of immigration to stave off population decline, rapid aging, and economic decrepitude. But the recent experience of Czechia casts doubt on this common sense. Immigration, particularly at levels large enough to make a demographic difference, is no

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