Analyzing International Population Estimates and Projections
- NPG
- September 26, 2023
- NPG Commentary
- 2 Comments
A Closer Look at the U.S. Census Bureau’s New Population Data
As a population activist, have you ever wondered about population data from other countries? In August, the U.S. Census Bureau published new population estimates (up to the year 2100) for 40 countries and areas in the International Database (IDB). Per the press release, the U.S. Census Bureau uses “new data from censuses, surveys and administrative records, and updated analysis” to predict potential population outcomes in different parts of the world.
“The IDB consists of estimates and projections of demographic indicators, including population size and growth (by sex and single year of age up to 100-plus) and components of change (mortality, fertility, and net international migration) for more than 200 countries and areas. The Census Bureau periodically updates the IDB as new data become available.”
By studying population trends around the world, demographers, academics, journalists, and population activists can better understand how the U.S. has grown to 335 million people in a relatively short period of time –and how the world now exceeds 8 billion people. NPG believes Americans need to focus on opportunities to slow, halt, and eventually reverse population growth in order to protect this still flourishing nation for future generations. This can only be done if we stop turning a blind eye to immigration-driven population growth and the policies that enable these—often clandestine—opportunities.
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Karen Sommer
We need to address overpopulation as a worldwide problem & support family planning as part of our foreign policy.
A trease
The population growth in the west is now almost exclusively due to immigration. As westerners are the highest per capita GHG emitters immigration not only affects the host countries lifestyle thru over crowding (look at the visitor numbers at US parks and other recreational areas) but makes any chance of sustainable emissions reduction impossible. Despite a per capita reduction in emissions in the US, the aggregate emissions for the country are the same as 1990, due to adding 80 million people. No one on the environmental side calls out mass immigration proponents like Biden on these numbers. Politically correct thinking prevents an honest discussion of demographic changes transforming most western countries. If you say anything about importing millions of poor, uneducated, unskilled immigrants you are immediately labeled a “xenophobe and racist” regardless of what the numbers say.