A startling look at how U.S. immigration will add 300 million people to the country this century if policies are not changed. This dramatic presentation of the latest Census data raises serious questions about the ability of the country to achieve environmental sustainability and to meet the quality-of-life infrastructure needs of the national community.
US In 1957 Total Fertility Rate reached 3.7 children per woman. Birth rate .. has remained below replacement level since 1972...has not led to a significant decline in the growth of population in the US..Due to:
1. Large # of wealthy baby-boom women- still in their giving birth to children.
2. increase in the number of teenage pregnancies.
3 High fertility rates for minorities
4. High legal and illegal immigration 40% of current US growth.
geography.ccsu.edu/kyem/GEOG433
macdoodled 1 year ago
Still say he poor folks should use no birth control? "frightening" ?
ALL Black ,Cuacasion, Asian, Middle Eastern ,Non-hispanic & some Hispanic Latinos people are immigrants.
Ask any Native American.
NOTE: the chart shows older citizen birth and new immigrant births as well as immigrants.
U.S. fertility is dramatically higher than almost all other developed countries. Europe's aggregate fertility varies between approximately 1.3 and 1.5, depending upon region, and Japan is at 1.3.4
macdoodled 1 year ago