Mark Steyn Quotes

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

Young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. We are watching the world of yesterday … Europe is turning Muslim

Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand — will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilization changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In for example Birmingham, England where a lot of these guys came from, where one of these plots was hatched, it's up to 30% of the population. Maybe that's the problem?

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.