Hi Tequila,
At the moment, the latest UN statistics on age distribution show some rather disturbing trends (you can get them here). When you examine the crude birth and death rates to get a general population growth, the highest population growth rates are in Africa (0.7-2.6) and Western Asia (2.1). Some other rates are:
As far as "ravening hordes" are concerned, sure that image belongs to an earlier age - I ever said it didn't . I would also, however, make three other observations:
- North America 1.0
- Eastern Europe -0.5
- Northern Europe 0.3
- Southern Europe 0.4
- Western Europe 0.2
Marc
- radical Islamist ideology also belongs to an "earlier age";
- "old" ideologies can be pretty easily updated and spread with modern communications technologies; and
- there are always politicians willing to see which way the people are going emotionally, jump in front of them and yell "Follow Me".
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