For over a century, the fertility rate in the United States has reflected sweeping demographic and societal changes.
This dataset, visualized by USAFacts using data from the CDC, captures the trend from 1909 through 2023.
The data shows the U.S. general fertility rate peaked in 1957 at 122.9 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44.
By 2023, that rate had fallen to 54.5—less than half the mid-century high. The sharpest declines came post-1960s, but the downward trend continues in the modern era.
Why Are Fertility Rates Falling?
Declining fertility rates are tied to a range of factors: economic pressures, access to contraception, shifts in social norms, delayed marriage and childbirth, and more women pursuing higher education and careers.
This broader trend reflects a transformation in how, when, and if Americans choose to have children.
Births Are Shifting to Older Age Groups
An important dynamic behind this trend is the shifting age profile of new mothers.
As of 2005, women aged 25–29 had the highest birth rates, at 116.5 births per 1,000 women. By 2023, the peak had shifted to the 30–34 age group, which logged 95.1 births per 1,000 women.
Between 2005 and 2023, fertility declined for women under 35, while increasing for those 35 and older. This demographic shift reflects later-life planning and improvements in maternal health options for older women.
The Arctic is gaining global attention as melting ice unlocks access to vast natural resources. From “ecosystem services” like climate regulation to lucrative mineral and oil reserves, this chilly region’s economic value is surprisingly large.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu breaks down the Arctic’s annual economic value based on the results of a 2017 study from Tanya O’Garra titled Economic Value of Ecosystem Services, Minerals, and Oil in a Melting Arctic.
Data and Methodology
The economic values of various Arctic resources were estimated using a combination of biophysical data and economic valuation techniques.
For climate regulation, the study assessed the Arctic’s role in carbon sequestration and its impact on global climate systems, assigning value based on the cost of carbon emissions and the benefits of climate stabilization.
Cultural values were evaluated through contingent valuation methods, which estimate individuals’ willingness to pay for the preservation of cultural and spiritual benefits associated with the Arctic environment.
The valuation of oil and minerals involved analyzing market prices, extraction costs, and the quantity of known reserves. Given the large variation in production costs for mining, it was assumed that 50% of mining revenue comprises costs.
Climate Change’s Impact on Economic Value
Global warming is expected to have varied effects on the Arctic’s economic value.
For example, retreating sea-ice could open up new shipping routes, fishing grounds, and areas for mineral exploration. On the flipside, increased resource extraction from the Arctic could also lead to more environmental disasters (e.g. pipeline leaks) and pollution.
Geopolitical competition is also ramping up in the region, as major economic powers like China, Russia, and the U.S. seek to secure shipping routes and resource access.
— Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd (LSE:BMV.L) (@bluebirdIR) June 5, 2025
“By adopting a ‘gold plus a digital gold’ strategy, it offers the Company an opportunity to turn the page and look to the future and seek to attract a new type of shareholder,” said the Executive Director and CEO of Bluebird Aidan Bishop.
“Under the leadership of a new CEO, once identified, it is my sincere hope that Bluebird will finally realise its ambitions for which it was initially established for.”
The announcement comes as Bluebird progresses towards a key agreement on its flagship Philippine project. The company expects to finalize a deal in the coming weeks that will grant it a net profit interest throughout the life of the mine, with no ongoing capital costs. The company said it believes bitcoin offers a modern alternative to traditional store of value assets like gold.
“I am very pleased with the progress of discussions in the Philippines which are looking very positive and will enable, if successfully completed, Bluebird to maintain an ongoing exposure with zero future cash commitments,” stated Bishop.
Bluebird plans to recycle revenues from its mining operations directly into bitcoin, aligning with what they describe as an innovative treasury approach. The company cited bitcoin’s fixed supply of 21 million, increasing global adoption, and role as a hedge against inflation and monetary instability as key reasons for its decision.
“Combining income streams from gold mining projects and recycling these revenues into a proactive ‘Bitcoin in Treasury’ management approach…” the company said. “Companies that have adopted bitcoin into their treasury strategy globally across public markets have been enjoying significant investor interest as well as substantial premiums to Net Asset Value (NAV) that have challenged traditional financial metrics as a basis of valuation.”
To lead this new phase, Bluebird is actively searching for a new CEO with experience in digital assets.
“On a personal level, I embarked some time ago on a journey to understand and learn about bitcoin,” added Bishop. “I am convinced that we are witnessing a tectonic shift in global markets and that bitcoin will reshape the landscape of financial markets on every level.”
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy has released a new report outlining how Europe could replace U.S. support for Ukraine both financially and militarily.
The organization has calculated that European governments as a whole will need to nearly double their aid flow from the current €44 billion per year to €82 billion per year, which equates to an increase from roughly 0.1 percent of their combined GDP to 0.21 percent of GDP.
Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that analysts say this is within Europe’s capacity, highlighting how a handful of countries, including Denmark, the Baltics, Sweden and Norway are all already contributing more than 0.3 percent of their GDP each year to Ukraine’s defense.
According to the IfW Kiel’s proposed scenario, the biggest economies and institutions will need to play the biggest role in upping their financial aid to Ukraine, led by the EU (Commission and EIB), with an increase from the current €16 billion to €36 billion per year.
It would be followed by Germany with an increase in support from €6 billion to €9 billion per year, the United Kingdom (up from €5 billion to €6.5 billion per year) and France (up from €1.5 billion to €6 billion per year).
The UK is turning into a “National Health State,” the Resolution Foundation has said, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a £29 billion annual increase in NHS funding.
The think tank’s analysis of Reeves’s Spending Review estimates that by the end of financial year 2028–29, the health service will account for half (49 percent) of all day-to-day public services spending, up from 34 percent in 2009–10.
On Wednesday, the chancellor announced a record £29 billion funding injection, which the Treasury said will deliver on the government’s promise to cut waiting lists, improve patient care, and modernise services.
Resolution Foundation Chief Executive Ruth Curtice said in a statement, “Health accounted for 90 per cent of the extra public service spending, continuing a trend that is seeing the British state morph into a National Health State, with half of public service spending set to be on health by the end of the decade.”
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) noted in its initial response to the Spending Review that the funding increase for the NHS was substantial, but questioned whether it will be enough to get the health service back to meeting its 18-week target for hospital waiting times within this Parliament, something which the think tank said was “enormously ambitious.”
£6 Billion to Speed up Tests and Treatments
After the Spending Review, Reeves announced that £6 billion of the allocated funds will be used to deliver up to four million additional NHS tests, scans, and procedures over the next five years.
This will be spent on ambulances, new scanners, increasing diagnostic centre capacity, and more Urgent Treatment Centres.
The government will also invest £30 billion in day-to-day maintenance and repair of the NHS estate, with over £5 billion allocated for critical repairs over the next five years.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meet staff in the outpatients department during a visit to St. Thomas’s Hospital in London, on June 11, 2025. Carl Court/PA Wire
Under the Plan for Change, the government has promised that 92 percent of treatments will be carried out within 18 weeks.
However, industry professionals have expressed scepticism that this target can be met.
Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said that while the funding boost is welcomed, “difficult decisions will still need to be made as this additional £29 billion won’t be enough to cover the increasing cost of new treatments, with staff pay likely to account for a large proportion of it.”
“So on its own, this won’t guarantee that waiting time targets are met,” he added.
Taylor said that NHS leaders will need continued backing from the government to balance budgets and redesign services, including moving more services into the community.
‘Confident’ Target Can Be Met
Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of the health care think tank The King’s Fund, said, “It is hard to see how all the things [Reeves] mentions—faster ambulance times, more GP appointments, adequate mental health services, and more—can be met by this settlement alone, particularly when large parts of this additional funding will be absorbed by rising costs, such as the higher cost of medicines which are currently being negotiated, and staff pay deals.”
After she announced the details of the review in the House of Commons, Reeves told Sky News she was confident the government could deliver on the 18-week pledge by the end of this Parliament.
She said: “We’ve already delivered around three-and-a-half million additional appointments since we came to office last July.
“Waiting lists are already down by 200,000, so we are confident that we can meet our Plan for Change commitments because of the 3 percent annual increase in funding for the National Health Service.”
NHS Waiting List Falls
The latest NHS data published on Thursday revealed that the waiting list for treatment has fallen to its lowest level in two years.
The number waiting has fallen to 7.39 million treatments at the end of April, down from 7.42 million at the end of March.
The health service said that patients are being seen faster owing to the NHS’s productivity drive, which has seen hospitals working differently, more evening and weekend appointments, and GPs and community services delivering more appointments.
The average patient waiting time for planned treatment has also fallen to the lowest level since July 2022 (13.3 weeks). This was despite services facing higher demand, with 2.3 percent more patients being added to the waiting list per working day on last year.
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said, “This is just the start.”
He said, “We are putting the NHS on the road to recovery after years of soaring waiting times, by providing record investment and fundamental NHS reform.”
“We’ve delivered millions of extra appointments since July, we are pushing on with our mission to get the NHS working for patients once again as we deliver our Plan for Change,” Streeting added.
The past is another country, according to LP Hartley’s opening line of The Go-Between. Nowadays, we may say the same of the present, as the pace of technological and demographic change quickens.
As for the future, what confidence and certainties can we have for our children and grandchildren?
Countries might not exist in any recognisable form as a new world order is cemented. But it is not only borders that are being undrawn. When Francis Fukuyama declared the ‘end of history’ on the fall of communism, perhaps he was inadvertently priming for the globalists’ most dramatic impact on humanity: the erasure of time. As warned by David Fleming, whose philosophy of continuism offers a unifying rationale for preserving humanity against the technocratic onslaught, ‘chronocide’ is a strategy.
As social animals, human beings create society. Over generations, each community establishes and maintains its customs, beliefs, roles and relationships. While ideologically progressive humanists emphasise that we have more in common than our differences in race, religion or region, a person from one culture cannot simply move to a place of different culture and expect life to go on as normal.
The crucial component of society is time, measured in lifetimes of immersion. Indeed, human beings + time = culture.
In this equation, important factors may be understood as nature or nurture in the human-temporal complex, such as terrain, resources, climate, commerce, conflict and technology. Each society writes and curates its history.
In the classic dystopian novels of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World, the past was deleted by design. Winston’s job is to revise records of events to comply with the current narrative, as it evolves. In Aldous Huxley’s futurism, babies are born by machine, and the idea of a woman giving birth is disturbing.
As the Marxists of the Frankfurt School realised in the 1920s, and as every management consultant knows, nothing really changes unless the culture changes. Social bonds and traditions are bulwarks against radical plans imposed from above. Piecemeal, incremental policies are prone to regression to norms, but major restructuring or other shocks to the system break social connections and shatter stability. The more dramatic and sudden the change, the more readily resistance is overcome.
Year Zero wipes the slate of our human story clean. For uncompromising totalitarians such as Pol Pot in Cambodia, this was a necessary means of shifting the people from a traditional agrarian existence to a communist order. Anyone harbouring relics or attitudes of the past was exterminated. While schoolchildren are taught (uncritically) about the Holocaust, generally they are uninformed on the trauma of extreme collectivisation.
Chronocide is the deliberate slashing and burning of everything in our culture – both the visible stem and branches above ground, and the underlying roots. We are being deprived of our continuity as families and fraternities, because such human connections are an obstacle to the technocratic mission. An atomised society is literally taking time out, in the following ways.
1. An Orwellian information war is being waged against the ordinary people. Facts derived from experience, common sense or critical thinking become ‘misinformation’ or ‘hate’. Knowledge handed down through generations is denigrated as unscientific old wives’ tales or prejudice from an intolerant past. The young, most heavily targeted by propaganda, are encouraged to reject time-honoured truths.
2. State-led behavioural psychology operations (‘psy-ops’) bewilder and frighten people, detaching them from settled knowledge and understanding. Placing the populace in uncharted territory, as in the Covid-19 pseudo-pandemic, puts them at the mercy of the powers-that-be. A worldwide deadly contagion could not be remembered by any living person, as the Spanish influenza outbreak was over a hundred years ago. In emergencies the authorities take control, and life is never the same again afterwards.
3. Safetyism suffocates culture, by replacing festivities steeped in heritage with managed events. Bonfire nights are cancelled if there’s any wind blowing, village fetes are stopped if there’s a risk of someone having an allergic reaction to homemade jam, and vigorous children’s games such as ‘British Bulldog’ are banished from the school playground. The insurance industry, through high cost of cover, helps to curtail activities that displease the authorities.
4. Dehumanising architecture proliferates on the skyline. On a scale much greater than in the social engineering of the 1960s, when swaths of terraced housing were replaced by concrete blocks and communities were moved en masse to new towns, construction is ever-upward. The physical landscape may retain remnants of the past, but churches, banks and pubs have closed, and the high street is in creeping desolation. Lessons from the recent past about the problems of high-rise living have been discarded. Smart Cities are being developed, with forests of steel-and-glass apartment blocks.
5. Expropriation of people’s property and assets is transferring all wealth to the elite. The World Economic Forum tells us that ‘you will own nothing and be happy’, but someone must own the capital. Generational inheritance will end, as shown by the extortionate tax on farms that have stayed in family ownership for centuries, forcing landowners to sell.
6. Mass migration has led to many people of the host country feeling marginalised and alienated. Despite the platitudes about multiculturalism, social cohesion has declined as the identity and loyalty of recent incomers is tied to their kith and kin, with little sense of shared belonging. That’s what our rulers want. Rootless cosmopolitans (the ‘Anywheres’ described by David Goodhart) always prefer things foreign or exotic to the predictable and homely, but now shire folk and the indigenous working class (‘Somewheres’) are finding themselves in a timeless Nowhere.
7. Rapid technological development is displacing people from physical to virtual reality. While the present is most visibly changing in demographic transformation, the near future poses an existential threat to humanity, making inter cultural tensions seem like a picnic in the park. The future, if the technocrats get their way, is transhumanism.
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) defines genocide as the killing of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. But there is also the concept of cultural genocide, as devised by Raphael Lemkin, entailing ‘systematic and organized destruction of the cultural heritage’.
A culture can be wiped out without a shot being fired. The technocrats have been playing a long game, preparing for a post-cultural, post-temporal future. Chronocide is a crime against humanity.
Well, the tensions over mass illegal immigration in the US are finally coming to a boil after 4 years of open borders under the Biden Administration and six months of obstruction by Democrat politicians and judges interfering with deportations.
The progressive establishment position on illegals is clear: Make it as easy as possible for anyone to enter the country and make it as difficult as possible to kick them out.
I published a comprehensive overview on the riots in California last week, but I also want to examine how we got here in the first place and why many foreign governments are so intrusive when it comes to US immigration policies.
Think about it for a moment and ask yourself: Why is the rest of the world in our business? Why do they care if we have tighter controls on borders and stricter vetting for immigration? Why don’t foreign governments also complain about Chinese immigration standards, or Saudi Arabia’s standards, or even Australia’s standards? Why does everyone else think they have a say in how America handles immigration?
There are, of course, ideological agendas at play here, but I believe the primary reason for foreign meddling is economic, specifically when it comes to Central America and South America.
I’ve covered these issues briefly in the past but I think it bears repeating that the US is widely considered a kind of global buffet or a wounded gazelle – The entire jungle shows up to take a bite. We’re the cash cow of the planet ready to be milked. The exposure of organizations like USAID proved beyond a doubt that Americans pay for the ENTIRE WORLD. Not only that, but we get to pay for the inflation that is created for every dollar printed and circulated to fill the pockets of foreign interests.
This is the enduring curse attached to any country “lucky” enough to maintain world reserve currency status. When the Bretton Woods agreement was put in place after World War II there was an unspoken but clear trade-off, a devil’s bargain attached to the dollar’s ascension.
First, Americans were going to have to pay the vast majority of defense spending in the new international order (which would ultimately become NATO). Second, America was gifted the ability to print dollars with wild abandon while mitigating hyperinflation by exporting dollars overseas to foreign banks and corporations. However, the expectation was that the US would have to spread the fiat wealth and feed the coffers of other countries through various subsidies, foreign aid and perhaps even open immigration.
The question is, how does mass immigration play into this arrangement?
The Economic And Social Steam Valve
Using Mexico as an example, we can see some obvious economic advantages for foreign governments if US immigration policies remain unenforced. Mexico has enjoyed an exceedingly low unemployment rate for several years, not just because untold numbers of US manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to the south, but because Mexico has the option of encouraging poverty stricken citizens who can’t get jobs to sneak into the US.
This serves a couple of purposes – It allows Mexico to maintain low unemployment stats. It saves them loads of cash when it comes to social welfare programs (they can send their poor to the US where American taxpayers foot the welfare bill). And, in terms of crime and civil unrest, Mexico is able to relocate their own discontented rabble over the border and let the US deal with those people instead.
The same goes for most of Central and South America. The benefits are just too numerous to ignore. The more open the US border is, the more every third world country near us has to gain.
Immigration Extortion
Most readers might not remember, but under the Biden Administration there was a concerted effort to spin the immigration crisis as a problem of financial instability and humanitarian response. Kamala Harris, the supposed “border czar”, spent years avoiding a visit to the southern border to witness the migrant surge first hand. Instead, she claimed that her energies were better spent on trips to other countries where she could “solve the problem at the source”.
This meant that the Biden Administration would not close the border, but they would pay off foreign governments with billions of dollars in subsidies that would theoretically trickle down to third world populations and keep them at home. These payoffs were also designed to make South American and Central American politicians stop encouraging their people to enter the US illegally.
Of course, Democrats didn’t really want the migrant caravans to stop, but this was a way for them to pretend as if they were taking action. Meanwhile, foreign leaders were licking their chops; the more migrant mobs tried to force their way across the US border, the more subsidies they could extort from the progressive controlled US government. The incentives for them to continue sending migrant trains north were overwhelming.
The Golden River Of Remittances
While scrolling through Mexican news sources I came across the story that inspired this article: Last week Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum seemingly threatened the US over a proposed tax on “remittances”. If you are not familiar with remittances, they are basically any monies earned (or stolen) within the US by non-citizens and transferred to their home countries.
I have related my own experiences with this issue in past articles – As a construction worker and contractor in Florida in my early 20s I witnessed extensive hiring of illegals who were paid around 30% less than American workers. Most of those guys would end up at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket every payday to cash their checks and wire money to Mexico through Western Union. There would be a long line of them around the front of the store, all of them sending money outside the US.
Now imagine this is happening in every town in the US with illegals, and you’ll start to understand the sheer scale of remittances. The tax on remittances that is currently under review is only around 3%, but some law makers want to the tax closer to 15% or more. In response Sheinbaum has turned hostile, arguing that Mexicans would “mobilize” in reaction to any fees.
“If necessary, we’ll mobilize. We don’t want taxes on remittances from our fellow countrymen. From the US to Mexico…”
The socialist president did not specify what she meant by “mobilize”, but many commentators assert that this is a threat to mobilize unrest among migrants already within US borders. As we have seen in Los Angeles in the past few days, the threat is not idle. It seems like madness, until we look at how much US cash is actually transferred outside the US by migrants.
Mexico alone received at least $65 billion in remittances from the US last year. In other words, the Mexican economy enjoys a yearly boost of around $65 billion just by encouraging illegals to cross the border. To put this in perspective, Mexico’s entire social welfare budget each year is around $30 billion; less than half of what the country gets through remittances from the US. Mexico’s tourism industry generates around $32 billion annually; again, less than half of what remittances generate.
Total foreign remittances to Mexico make up around 5% of their annual GDP and it is the largest single source of income from foreign sources.
Also keep in mind that a dollar buys a lot more in Mexico than it does in the US. Want to buy a house in the US? The median price for a three bedroom home is $320,000. In Mexico, a three bedroom home goes for $100,000 (often less). This is yet another reason why illegals march across the border; even when working for 30% less wages they still earn triple the buying power or more in their own country by wiring dollars back home.
Sheinbaum understands full well that her country is highly dependent on the underground cash flows from the US through illegal workers. The same goes for numerous Central and South American countries. The expectation attached to the current financial order is that Americans get the world reserve currency, but Americans must foot the bill for nearly every other allied nation. This dynamic is changing and the parasitic feeder nations don’t like it. They’ve become so dependent on easy cash from the US they don’t know how to function any other way.
Panic is certain. The economics of illegal immigration are ugly. Some progressives will argue that open borders are “good for America” because remittances and cash outflows help reduce inflation. Obviously that’s not the case, otherwise inflation would have been non-existent under the Biden Administration with its unprecedented migrant invasion.
Not only that, but the mere presence of millions of illegals creates a massive demand spike in goods, services and housing which drives up prices. Add to this the billions of dollars spent every year on subsides for migrants collecting welfare (around 60% of all migrants collect from one or more welfare programs upon entering the US), and you have am undeniable inflationary burden that does not need to be here.
Foreign governments want illegals here because they are yet another tool for bleeding the US for extra funds. They believe they are entitled to this money, but this methodology is about to change. They simply aren’t ready for what is about to happen.
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Population Projections: The World’s Top Countries By 2100
By the end of this century, global demographics could look dramatically different than they do today. While some countries will be growing, others will be in the midst of long-term declines.
This graphic is also animated! Check out the video below to see how these demographic shifts will play out over time.
Data & Discussion
The data we used to create this graphic is listed in the table below. According to these projections, India will be the most populous country in 2100, followed by China, Pakistan, and Nigeria.
Data in millions
Year
India
🇮🇳
China
🇨🇳
Pakistan
🇵🇰
Nigeria
🇳🇬
DRC
🇨🇩
U.S.
🇺🇸
Ethiopia
🇪🇹
Indonesia
🇮🇩
1950
342.6
539.2
35.5
36.9
12.2
153.1
17.5
68.1
1951
350.0
548.9
36.2
37.6
12.4
155.3
17.8
69.5
1952
357.8
558.6
37.0
38.4
12.7
157.6
18.2
71.1
1953
366.0
571.6
37.8
39.1
12.9
160.0
18.5
72.7
1954
374.2
583.5
38.7
39.8
13.2
162.4
18.9
74.4
1955
383.1
596.8
39.6
40.6
13.5
164.9
19.2
76.3
1956
392.3
610.3
40.6
41.3
13.8
167.5
19.6
78.3
1957
401.7
622.8
41.6
42.1
14.1
170.1
20.0
80.3
1958
410.8
637.9
42.7
42.9
14.4
172.8
20.3
82.5
1959
420.8
650.5
43.9
43.7
14.7
175.6
20.6
84.7
1960
430.8
654.9
45.1
44.6
15.1
178.7
21.1
87.1
1961
441.2
654.7
46.3
45.5
15.5
181.8
21.6
89.5
1962
451.9
656.9
47.5
46.5
15.9
185.1
22.2
92.1
1963
462.6
673.3
48.8
47.5
16.3
188.3
22.8
94.7
1964
473.7
695.8
50.1
48.5
16.7
191.3
23.4
97.4
1965
484.8
713.8
51.5
49.5
17.2
194.3
24.0
100.3
1966
495.5
733.0
52.9
50.6
17.7
197.0
24.6
102.5
1967
506.0
751.8
54.4
51.7
18.2
199.5
25.3
105.1
1968
517.2
770.3
56.0
52.8
18.7
201.9
26.0
107.9
1969
528.2
791.7
57.6
54.0
19.3
204.1
26.7
111.0
1970
539.5
812.6
59.3
55.2
19.9
206.5
27.4
114.1
1971
552.2
834.1
61.0
56.5
20.4
209.1
28.2
117.2
1972
564.0
854.1
62.7
57.9
21.0
211.7
29.0
120.4
1973
577.0
873.3
64.5
59.3
21.5
214.0
29.8
123.7
1974
590.0
891.9
66.4
60.8
22.1
216.0
30.6
126.9
1975
604.1
908.7
68.4
62.5
22.7
218.1
31.3
130.2
1976
618.5
923.5
70.5
64.3
23.3
220.2
32.1
133.5
1977
633.2
937.3
72.7
66.2
23.9
222.2
33.0
136.8
1978
648.4
949.8
75.1
68.3
24.5
224.3
33.4
140.2
1979
663.1
962.5
77.5
70.4
25.5
226.5
34.1
143.7
1980
679.2
976.1
80.5
72.6
26.3
228.7
34.4
147.2
1981
695.5
990.2
84.1
74.9
27.1
231.0
34.5
150.7
1982
711.9
1005.2
87.5
77.2
27.9
233.4
36.1
154.3
1983
728.7
1022.0
90.7
79.5
28.8
235.8
37.3
157.8
1984
746.0
1036.2
93.8
81.3
29.7
238.2
38.2
161.5
1985
763.7
1051.5
96.6
83.7
30.8
240.5
39.3
165.0
1986
781.6
1068.1
99.9
86.1
31.8
242.9
40.4
168.5
1987
799.8
1086.4
103.3
88.4
32.8
245.1
41.7
171.8
1988
818.1
1106.0
106.9
90.8
33.8
247.3
43.3
175.2
1989
836.6
1124.4
110.5
93.3
34.9
249.5
45.0
178.5
1990
855.5
1143.5
114.2
95.8
36.0
251.8
46.7
181.9
1991
874.5
1163.6
118.2
98.4
37.3
254.9
48.5
185.1
1992
893.4
1177.9
122.0
101.0
38.5
258.0
50.9
188.4
1993
912.5
1191.2
125.1
103.7
39.9
261.2
52.8
191.7
1994
931.7
1203.4
128.9
106.5
41.4
264.1
54.6
194.9
1995
950.6
1214.6
132.6
109.4
43.9
266.9
56.6
198.2
1996
970.0
1225.7
136.6
112.3
45.0
269.5
58.5
201.5
1997
989.4
1236.2
140.5
115.2
45.6
272.2
60.4
204.9
1998
1008.9
1246.1
144.5
118.3
46.5
274.8
62.4
208.2
1999
1028.4
1255.6
148.5
121.4
48.1
277.5
64.4
211.5
2000
1048.0
1264.7
152.6
124.7
49.7
280.1
66.4
214.6
2001
1067.8
1274.4
157.1
128.1
51.3
282.9
68.4
217.6
2002
1088.0
1283.0
161.4
131.6
52.9
285.7
70.5
220.6
2003
1107.2
1290.7
165.0
135.3
54.6
288.5
72.7
223.6
2004
1126.4
1298.3
169.2
139.1
56.1
291.3
74.9
226.5
2005
1145.6
1305.9
173.4
143.0
57.9
294.2
77.2
229.3
2006
1163.7
1314.2
177.5
147.0
59.7
297.2
79.5
232.4
2007
1182.0
1321.9
181.9
151.1
61.5
300.3
81.9
235.5
2008
1199.3
1329.7
187.1
155.4
63.4
303.4
84.3
238.6
2009
1216.5
1338.0
191.9
159.8
65.4
306.5
86.8
241.7
2010
1234.5
1347.1
196.9
164.3
67.5
309.5
89.2
244.8
2011
1252.5
1356.0
201.6
169.0
69.7
312.6
91.8
247.9
2012
1270.0
1364.5
205.9
173.8
72.0
315.6
94.5
251.1
2013
1287.4
1374.6
209.4
178.6
74.5
318.6
97.1
254.3
2014
1304.3
1383.4
212.7
183.5
77.1
321.6
99.8
257.4
2015
1320.2
1392.5
215.8
188.3
79.7
324.6
102.5
260.4
2016
1335.8
1399.8
218.8
193.0
82.4
327.6
105.3
263.2
2017
1352.1
1408.3
221.5
197.9
85.6
330.7
108.2
266.0
2018
1367.2
1416.4
225.0
202.6
88.6
333.7
111.2
268.7
2019
1382.1
1421.6
228.8
207.2
91.5
336.4
114.2
271.2
2020
1396.0
1425.4
232.8
211.7
94.4
339.1
117.3
273.7
2021
1409.3
1426.8
237.2
216.3
97.6
339.7
120.5
275.9
2022
1419.1
1426.1
241.7
220.8
100.7
340.6
123.7
277.6
2023
1431.7
1424.3
245.7
225.5
104.1
342.5
127.0
280.0
2024
1444.4
1420.9
249.3
230.3
107.5
344.5
130.4
282.4
2025
1457.4
1417.7
253.2
235.1
111.0
346.4
133.8
284.6
2026
1470.3
1414.5
257.2
240.0
114.6
348.2
137.2
286.8
2027
1483.0
1411.4
261.4
244.9
118.3
349.9
140.6
289.0
2028
1495.4
1408.0
265.7
249.9
122.0
351.6
144.1
291.0
2029
1507.5
1404.3
270.1
254.8
125.8
353.2
147.6
293.0
2030
1519.4
1400.3
274.6
259.9
129.6
354.9
151.1
294.9
2031
1530.9
1396.0
279.2
264.9
133.5
356.4
154.6
296.8
2032
1542.2
1391.5
283.9
269.9
137.4
358.0
158.1
298.6
2033
1553.1
1386.6
288.6
275.0
141.4
359.5
161.7
300.4
2034
1563.6
1381.5
293.4
280.1
145.4
361.0
165.2
302.1
2035
1573.8
1376.2
298.2
285.2
149.5
362.6
168.8
303.8
2036
1583.6
1370.6
303.1
290.2
153.6
364.0
172.3
305.4
2037
1593.0
1364.8
307.9
295.3
157.8
365.4
175.9
306.9
2038
1602.0
1358.8
312.8
300.3
161.9
366.9
179.4
308.4
2039
1610.6
1352.6
317.7
305.3
166.2
368.2
183.0
309.8
2040
1618.7
1346.2
322.5
310.2
170.4
369.6
186.6
311.2
2041
1626.5
1339.5
327.3
315.2
174.8
370.9
190.3
312.4
2042
1633.8
1332.5
332.2
320.0
179.1
372.1
193.9
313.6
2043
1640.7
1325.3
336.9
324.9
183.6
373.3
197.5
314.8
2044
1647.1
1317.9
341.7
329.6
188.0
374.5
201.2
315.8
2045
1653.2
1310.2
346.5
334.3
192.6
375.6
204.8
316.8
2046
1658.9
1302.1
351.2
339.0
197.2
376.6
208.5
317.7
2047
1664.2
1293.6
355.9
343.6
201.8
377.6
212.2
318.5
2048
1669.1
1284.7
360.5
348.1
206.4
378.6
215.9
319.2
2049
1673.6
1275.3
365.1
352.6
211.1
379.5
219.5
319.9
2050
1677.7
1265.5
369.6
357.0
215.9
380.4
223.2
320.5
2051
1681.5
1255.1
374.1
361.4
220.6
381.3
226.8
321.0
2052
1685.0
1244.3
378.6
365.7
225.4
382.1
230.5
321.4
2053
1688.1
1232.9
383.0
369.9
230.2
383.0
234.2
321.7
2054
1690.9
1221.0
387.3
374.1
235.1
383.8
237.8
322.0
2055
1693.3
1208.7
391.6
378.2
239.9
384.5
241.3
322.3
2056
1695.4
1196.0
395.9
382.3
244.8
385.3
244.9
322.4
2057
1697.2
1182.9
400.1
386.3
249.6
386.0
248.5
322.5
2058
1698.7
1169.5
404.3
390.2
254.5
386.8
252.0
322.6
2059
1699.8
1155.9
408.4
394.1
259.4
387.7
255.4
322.6
2060
1700.7
1142.1
412.4
397.9
264.2
388.5
259.0
322.6
2061
1701.2
1128.2
416.4
401.7
269.1
389.3
262.5
322.5
2062
1701.4
1114.2
420.4
405.3
274.0
390.2
265.9
322.4
2063
1701.2
1100.2
424.3
409.0
278.8
391.1
269.3
322.2
2064
1700.7
1086.3
428.1
412.5
283.6
392.0
272.7
322.0
2065
1699.9
1072.5
431.8
416.0
288.4
392.9
276.1
321.8
2066
1698.7
1058.8
435.5
419.4
293.2
393.8
279.3
321.6
2067
1697.2
1045.2
439.1
422.6
297.9
394.8
282.6
321.3
2068
1695.4
1031.7
442.7
425.9
302.7
395.8
285.9
321.0
2069
1693.2
1018.5
446.2
429.0
307.4
396.7
289.1
320.6
2070
1690.6
1005.3
449.6
432.0
312.1
397.7
292.2
320.2
2071
1687.8
992.3
452.9
434.9
316.7
398.7
295.3
319.9
2072
1684.6
979.3
456.1
437.8
321.3
399.7
298.4
319.4
2073
1681.0
966.5
459.2
440.5
325.9
400.6
301.5
319.0
2074
1677.2
953.6
462.3
443.2
330.4
401.5
304.5
318.5
2075
1673.1
940.9
465.2
445.7
334.9
402.4
307.6
318.0
2076
1668.6
928.1
468.1
448.2
339.4
403.4
310.6
317.4
2077
1664.0
915.3
470.9
450.5
343.8
404.3
313.5
316.8
2078
1659.0
902.5
473.6
452.8
348.2
405.1
316.4
316.2
2079
1653.8
889.6
476.1
454.9
352.5
405.9
319.2
315.6
2080
1648.4
876.7
478.5
457.0
356.8
406.7
321.9
314.9
2081
1642.7
863.8
480.9
458.9
361.0
407.5
324.6
314.2
2082
1636.8
850.9
483.2
460.7
365.2
408.3
327.2
313.5
2083
1630.8
838.0
485.5
462.4
369.4
409.0
329.9
312.7
2084
1624.5
825.2
487.6
464.0
373.5
409.8
332.4
311.9
2085
1618.1
812.4
489.6
465.5
377.5
410.5
334.9
311.1
2086
1611.5
799.8
491.5
466.9
381.5
411.2
337.4
310.2
2087
1604.8
787.3
493.4
468.2
385.4
411.9
339.8
309.4
2088
1598.0
775.0
495.1
469.4
389.2
412.6
342.1
308.5
2089
1591.0
762.8
496.8
470.4
393.0
413.4
344.4
307.5
2090
1583.9
750.8
498.4
471.4
396.7
414.1
346.5
306.6
2091
1576.7
739.0
499.9
472.3
400.3
414.8
348.8
305.6
2092
1569.4
727.4
501.4
473.1
403.8
415.6
350.9
304.6
2093
1562.1
715.9
502.9
473.9
407.3
416.3
353.0
303.6
2094
1554.6
704.5
504.2
474.5
410.7
417.0
355.0
302.6
2095
1547.1
693.3
505.5
475.0
414.0
417.8
357.0
301.5
2096
1539.6
682.2
506.7
475.5
417.2
418.5
359.0
300.5
2097
1532.0
671.2
507.8
475.9
420.3
419.1
361.0
299.4
2098
1524.4
660.2
508.8
476.2
423.4
419.8
362.9
298.3
2099
1516.8
649.4
509.7
476.5
426.4
420.4
364.7
297.2
2100
1509.1
638.7
510.6
476.7
429.3
421.0
366.4
296.1
🇮🇳 India Population Projections
India recently overtook China to become the world’s most populous country, and it’s projected to continue growing until 2062, peaking at 1.7 billion people.
Birth rates in the country have actually been declining since the 1960s, but are currently at a relatively high 2 births per woman.
🇨🇳 China Population Projections
China held the title of the world’s most populous country for many decades, but is now shrinking due to its rapidly aging population and falling fertility rates.
Based on these projections, China’s population will be 639 million in 2100, which is 788 million lower from its 2021 peak.
🇺🇸 U.S. Population Projections
The U.S. is currently the world’s third biggest country, but is expected to fall to sixth place by 2100. Unlike many other developed countries, however, the U.S. should keep growing throughout this century.
Most of this growth will be due to immigration, rather than new births, as fertility rates in the U.S. are already below the replacement level.
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US President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, filed an S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a dual exchange-traded fund (ETF) for Bitcoin and Ether.
Filed on Monday, the S-1 form proposes the issuance and trading of Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, sponsored by the asset management firm Yorkville America Digital.
Details from the title page of the Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF. Source: SEC
The trust seeks to provide investors with exposure to both Bitcoin and Ether by offering shares backed by the crypto assets, removing the complexities stemming from direct investment.
The shares are backed by BTC and ETH held by the custodian on behalf of the trust, Foris DAX Trust Company, doing business as Crypto.com, the prospectus reads.
Ticker and cash custodian to be disclosed
The ETF shares are proposed to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange Arca (NYSE Arca), according to the filing.
While Truth Social has officially determined that Crypto.com will be its dedicated crypto custody provider, the company is yet to finalize the details of the upcoming ETF, such as the fund’s ticker and its cash custodian.
An excerpt from the proposed Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF. Source: SEC
Truth Social also mentioned that it plans to file an amendment later with a summary of the terms of the prime execution agency agreement with Crypto.com.
The filing for the Truth Social Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF follows the approval of Trump Media and Technology Group’s $2.3 billion Bitcoin treasury deal by the SEC on Friday.
In the statement, the company said that it currently has “no immediate plans” to issue any securities under the deal.
Truth Social’s Bitcoin and Ether ETF filing arrived on the same day as a new S-1 filing by CoinShares, which proposed the issuance of a Solana spot ETF.
Already operating an exchange-traded product (ETP) called CoinShares Physical Solana Staked ETP in Europe, CoinShares is now seeking to launch a similar ETF product in the US.
According to Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, there are now up to eight Solana spot filings under the SEC’s consideration.
As of Friday, seven issuers filed initial S-1 registration statements for Solana spot ETFs, including Fidelity Investments, 21Shares, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale Investments, Bitwise Investments, Canary Capital and VanEck.
According to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, a Solana ETF approval is unlikely to happen this week.
Trump Calls Expelling Russia From G8 “A Big Mistake” That Led To Ukraine War
“This was a big mistake,” Trump told reporters Monday just ahead of the G7 meeting in Canada, in reference to booting Russia from what was then known as the Group of 8. “You wouldn’t have that war” – in reference to the over three-year long Ukraine war.
He described that this action under the Obama administration likely greatly contributed to President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. He not only pinned blame on Obama, but also on former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – in a rare direct swipe at Canadian foreign policy. Russia was booted in March 2014 following the annexation of Crimea.
“I’m not saying he should at this point [be a part of a Group of 8], because too much water has gone over the dam, maybe, but it was a big mistake,” Trump said. “Obama didn’t want him and the head of your country, the proud head of your country, didn’t want him.”
Trump described that being in the major global economic forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States (and the EU as a “non-enumerated member”) would have been a way to keep one’s enemy closer, and thus be able to better negotiate when a crisis arises.
“He wasn’t really an enemy at that time,” Trump pointed out. “If I were president, this war would have never happened. But likewise, if he were a member of what was called the G8 at that time – it was always the G8 – you wouldn’t have a war right now.”
Interestingly, he also said something similar when asked if the same might have held true with China, amid a US-China trade war.
“Well, it’s not a bad idea,” Trump responded. “I don’t mind that. If somebody wants to suggest China coming in, I think we suggest, but you want to have people that you can talk to, you know.”
Trump presented a general situation where Moscow has effectively cut off those G7 leaders who had first cut him off.
Trump both on the campaign trail and as president has repeatedly emphasized that the disastrous Ukraine war is a conflict that would have never happened had he been president.
This wasn’t the first time such statements have been made, as it was at the 2018 G7 summit in Charlevoix, Canada, President Trump called for Russia to be readmitted, clashing with other G7 leaders who opposed the idea. The summit, hosted by Prime Minister Trudeau, was marked by tensions over trade.
President Trump used the opening meeting at the G-7 to complain that the group no longer included Russia.
He criticized former US President Barack Obama and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the decision to expel Russia from the then-G-8 https://t.co/tbGJ5LxlIMpic.twitter.com/N5ezWVJiv7
However, some critics have pointed out that aside from a very brief couple of days early in his presidency, American arms, ammo, and intelligence to Kiev has flowed largely without interruption.
Trump efforts to get the warring sides to the negotiating table hasn’t produced much, and each side is still locked in their uncompromising positions, and a frustrated US leader has expressed that he might be ready to just ‘let them fight it out’.
