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A very different future

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Does the west have a future? "If you don't have young people, you are a society in decline." Mark Steyn Who's still breeding in the world?  I find statistics fascinating.  These countries will have lots of young people in a couple of decades: Rank Country Children born per woman 1 Niger 7.16 2 Mali 6.35 3 Somalia 6.26 4 Uganda 6.14 9 Afghanistan 5.64 30 Gaza Strip 4.57 33 Yemen 4.45 38 Sudan 4.17 45 Zimbabwe 3.61 46 Iraq 3.58 48 Tonga 3.55 52 Jordan 3.36 59 Pakistan 3.07 66 Egypt 2.94 67 Bolivia 2.93 77 Israel 2.67  A healthy birth rate to sustain a population is about 2.1. The United States are doing ok, with 2.06. These countries, however, a...