As fertility declines everywhere except Africa, immigration policy will make Western countries increasingly African in demographic composition over the next 50-100 years.

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Speaker

Niall Ferguson

Evidence Quote

I think one of the interesting consequences of what we're discussing is the that the countries that have an immigration policy will become over time more African and then there'll be a point reached when we run out of Africans too and then we'll be in the world of the the I guess the 2070s 2080s when the global population will Decline

Source

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall FergusonStigler Center
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:34:44 AM

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