considering an understudied variable

demographic speculation on Taiwan as a crisis

The United States is unlike most developed states because our population is still growing as a result of immigration rather than natural births. Immigration is a flash point in politics but the influx of new workers, broadly defined, supports the nation in one way at least. The key, in some ways, about the United States is that our population growing allows us to rely on a smaller number of natural births without conversations about population decline. Here is our ‘population pyramid’, courtesy of CIA Factbook as are all the graphs I insert here to allow us to compare which we will discuss relative to four Asian populations.