Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "The Spanish Population Is Disappearing @visualeconomiken" video.

  1. This is the case for pretty much all modern countries, most of us don't seem to want to have kids any more because of modern living, it's too expensive and time-consuming. If we were to take out immigration from all modern countries, then you would have something to worry about because a lot of the natural births in modern countries are from immigrants, so reducing immigrants has a double impact in reducing the population whiles also reducing birth levels in the country. The real question people should be asking isn't why the population is shrinking, but why do the natives in modern countries not want to have kids any more, because clearly this is an issue that spans pretty much every modern countries, with some doing better than others but all are doing quite bad and being kept alive by immigration. In fact, is there any modern country that has a population growth rate above the replacement rate of 2.1% from natural births? From what I know, even countries that are doing well are only around 1.6% so clearly there are big issues and immigration is helping to fix that problem in the short term, but unless there's a long term solution on why people don't want to have kids any more, then we have a much bigger problem going forward, especially with an ageing population in most modern countries. Personally, I think in pretty much every modern country, the conditions to have kids are not very good, the cost of living, the lack of free time and how people perceive the world as being less safe are probably playing a big part in why so many are put off the idea of having kids, but housing and cost of living are probably having a big impact.
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