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.
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Our population is not growing as much as before. People are having fewer children, so the number of people is staying the same or even going down. If we don't have people moving to our country, our population will not increase.
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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.
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