Interesting Maps

Trento, Italy, early 20th century.

https://x.com/vintagemapstore/status/1883236674185859472/photo/1

^ Your average white man will be extinct in how many years?

Map of Europe if the size of the countries were to be their GDP (and if every country were to be a square). Source: http://buff.ly/3qBU9mA

Map Of The Largest Towns And Cities Of England In 1377More about them: https://brilliantmaps.com/england-in-137

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123101750#Comment_123101750Here is a research paper which may add some context to the names.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331488283_Ptolemy's_Tribes_of_Ireland_revised

That confuses me. My parents, me and my wife and our kids are all still alive. So 3 generations.

When my kids were born, we (the parents) didn't just die. So we now have 4 in our family (2 adults and 2 kids). And I aim to live for 30 to 40 years of their lives.

I don't get how the population is declining as we are living longer with the other generations. What am I missing?

For the population to start to decline will take another 50 years or so. Despite us living longer, if the fertility rate is lower than 2.1 (the .1 is to allow for infant mortality, which could probably be decreased these days), eventually you stop replacing the population that is dying off. (just checked, the UN expects the population to peak in 2085)

The, much bigger problem though, is the economic impact. Because we're living longer and because the younger cohort is becoming relatively smaller, you have a much smaller working pool to support the much bigger non-working pool.

From Eurostat, March 2023.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Population_projections_in_the_EU#:~:text=date%3A%20June%202026-,Highlights,years%20between%202022%20and%202100.

Ireland has not hit a fertility rate of 2.1 since 1991, it is consistently declining. What keeps our population up is new immigration and returning immigrants.

The rate of returning immigrants is dying out as the huge wave of those who left in the 50's and 60's are now either back here, or have passed away.

The rate of returning Irish has been pretty stable. 27K 2002, the highest in any year going back to 1987. 20K 2011 Census, 28K 2016 Census, 30K CSO figure y/e 30 April 2024.

• There were 149,200 immigrants which was a 17-year high. This was the third successive 12-month period where over 100,000 people immigrated to Ireland. 
• Of those immigrants, 30,000 were returning Irish citizens, 27,000 were other EU citizens, and 5,400 were UK citizens. The remaining 86,800 immigrants were citizens of other countries.

As parts of Africa and other areas become unlivable due to climate change you will see a migration of people to more temperate climates which may offset some of the decline...but will also cause a many other problems.

Well half the lads in my leaving cert year in the 80s are still abroad. I think around 1990 nearly half of the Irish population was 25 years of age and under with double digit unemployment. I emigrated too but came back, a lot of Poles I used to work with on building the motorways have gone back to Poland too as things improved there.

A poor African country with a high birth rate can have as high a dependency rate as Japan, the former having a lot of under working age and the latter having too many over working age.