Shripad Tuljapurkar Quotes on Countries (2 Quotes)

We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.

Countries like Sweden and Italy have been having this huge debate for many years over population decline. A lot of the debate is about immigration People have been telling them they need to increase immigration in order to keep the economy going.