{"id":4783,"date":"2024-12-27T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T20:49:10","slug":"immigration-what-share-of-a-countrys-population-was-born-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/27\/immigration-what-share-of-a-countrys-population-was-born-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: What share of a country&#8217;s population was born elsewhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two effects are shown here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fertility rates have fallen sharply in almost all developed nations &#8211; and others too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Population increases in these countries now come primarily from immigration<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The effect is that % of the population in each country is, not surprisingly, shifting two immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An odd corollary, related to comments from Musk and Ramaswamy, is that there is a presumption that immigrants are smarter, harder working and native Americans are lazy, dumb and uneducated. Both are assertions being promoted for political purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those comments also foster a two-class society &#8211; those who are &#8220;better immigrants&#8221; and conversely, those Americans who have immigration privileges can themselves go elsewhere and view themselves as &#8220;better&#8221; than Americans who cannot leave the U.S. This is not a healthy atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12.png 680w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-12-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to fertility rate declines, especially, most population growth in many countries comes from immigration. Not surprisingly, the share of the population that is an immigrant is now much higher, and growing rapidly &#8211; in most high income countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globally-experienced","category-immigration","category-work-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}