Korean fertility rate craters to 0.75 Paul Tuns: Three recent news stories, a UN report, and a new study illustrate the challenge of precipitously declining fertility rates. Demographers consider a fertility rate of 2.1 -- the expected number of children a woman of childbearing age will have – as necessary to sustain a country’s population. Most western countries and large economies now [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: No One Left: Why the World Needs Children by Paul Morland (Forum, $32, 264 pages) Despite a growing number of countries experiencing rapidly declining fertility rates and falling natural population growth (that is, growth without immigration), there are still policymakers and thought leaders that insist that population growth is a problem. Paul Morland has been banging the drum on depopulation [...]
By J.M. Glover: ‘The incomparable gift of being born’ Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, gave his personal testimony at the 2025 March for Life in Washington, D.C. His words bear repeating from a man who was conceived by a teenage boy and girl. “I was born in January 1972 … I was the product of an [...]
Immigration responsible for nearly all population growth Paul Tuns: Source: Statistics Canada On Sept. 25, Statistics Canada reported that Canada’s fertility rate has been declining for 15 years and reached the new low of 1.26 children per woman in 2023. Demographers consider 2.1 children to be the natural replacement rate. The number of live births in Canada was unchanged at [...]
Paul Tuns: The C.D. Howe Institute, a right-of-centre economic think tank based in Toronto, published a study that warns that lower fertility rates and rapid aging “creates challenges for public finances.” The study, “Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: The Fiscal Implications of Demographic Change for Ottawa and the Provinces,” by William B.P. Robson and Parisa Mahboubi, warn that the inverted [...]
By J.M. Glover: Dermot Kearney: Pro-life hero Dr. Dermot Kearney, a British Catholic cardiologist who spoke at the National March for Life in May, has been honoured for his work on the medical abortion pill reversal (APR). (See The Interim, June 2024.) In April, he received the Anton Neuwirth Prize for the Protection of Life Award in Slovakia “for providing medical care [...]
Paul Tuns: In late March, just nine months after Canada reached a population of 40 million, the number of people calling Canada home exceeded 41 million according to Statistic Canada’s live population tracker, with most growth coming through immigration. Statistics Canada reported that in 2023, Canada added 1,271,872 total inhabitants, a population increase of 3.2 per cent, the highest such figure since [...]
Josie Luetke: Interim writer, Josie Luetke, Talk Turkey Canada’s fertility rate is now 1.3 children per woman, its lowest in recorded history. Replacement level fertility, by comparison, is 2.1 children per woman. Several years ago, Statistics Canada cautioned, “If the country’s fertility continues to decline further in the coming years, Canada could join the countries with the ‘lowest-low’ fertility rates [...]
Paul Tuns: At the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit on Jan. 18, Argentina's president, Javier Milei, condemned the global elite who are promoting population control and its concomitant “bloody abortion agenda” because human beings “damage the planet.” The WEF meets annually at Davos, Switzerland, bringing together world leaders, cabinet ministers, top business executives, and the heads of non-governmental organizations to discuss world [...]
Oswald Clark: Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. Secretary of State, died at the age of 100 on Nov. 29. Kissinger was the author of a 1974 National Security Study memo calling for global depopulation. Kissinger served as Secretary of State during the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations in the 1970s and had served since then as a foreign policy guru to [...]
It might have been the first 60 Minutes of 2023, but it was the same old baloney as the Jan. 1, broadcast of that long-time CBS staple of Sunday evening program trotted out disgraced doomsayer Paul Ehrlich. The author of the infamous 1968 book The Population Bomb has been peddling the end of humanity scaremongering for more than 50 years and 60 [...]
Paul Tuns: On Sept. 21, in remarks to reporters at the United Nations after addressing the General Assembly, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau once again declared his support for abortion, with his Foreign Minister, Melanie Joly, reiterating the message six days later at the UN. In response to a journalist's questions about what, if any limits Trudeau supported when it comes to abortion, [...]
Paul Tuns, Review: Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley (Cato Institute, $45, 547 pages) Worries about "overpopulation" are always followed by demands for population control to prevent the growing mass of people from stripping the planet bare. The problem with that line of thinking according to Marian Tupy [...]
Paul Tuns: In July, the United Nations’ Population Division predicted that on Nov. 15, global population would hit 8 billion people. Let us be among the first to wish the newborn baby boy or girl, probably born in Africa, the Middle East, or south Asia, a happy birth day and welcome to the human family. Typically, the UN’s population estimates come with [...]
Chileans reject pro-abortion constitution On Sept. 4, voters in Chile rejected a new constitution that would have legalized abortion-on-demand and strip away unborn babies’ right to life. In a national binding referendum, more than six in ten voters voted against a new “progressive” constitution (38 per cent in favour, 62 per cent against) that was part of socialist President Gabriel Boric’s sweeping [...]