For an interesting and relatively plain language view:
For an interesting and relatively plain language view:
If you really want a positive example about how a Developed country can be with an ok birthrate without much immigration. Look at Japan
If it is not intended as a joke, and I completely apologize upfront, the tone can't be conveyed through chat, could you expand a bit?
My poor knowledge was that Japan's birthrate is possibly the example of "things going bad"
For analysis of any arbitrary economy, why should the economic-performance layer be in any way coupled to the number-of-people-living-in-the-country layer? I've been through two microeconomics classes, and one macroeconomics class, and none of the professors said "By the way in order for our theories to hold up you need to birth more people, so get cracking."