Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> I remember a discussion going on in The Netherlands of
> balancing population growth. Besides the birth rates and
> death rates they also started taking into account the
> influx of legallised foreigners. That way turning the
> negative population growth figures into a positive growth
> a couple of years ago.
Assuming most of the immigrants become reasonably well-off and
integrated into their new country in a generation or two, their
birth rates are likely to start falling for exactly the same
reasons that the native Dutch birth rates are falling now.
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