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(The Center Square) — Another population update from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms a long-running trend: Pennsylvania continues to shrink.

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It will replenish a labour force depleted by an ageing population. It will generate lots of extra tax revenue for the Government and stop debt from spiralling out of control. And it will inject some much needed dynamism into a business culture that would otherwise stagnate. For the last two decades, there has been a suffocating consensus that higher immigration is vital for the economy. Anyone who argued otherwise was ignoring the evidence.

Despite relative proximity to the Triangle, people are leaving these mid-sized towns in large numbers.

Also coming up, from baby boom to baby bust. why a shrinking population could pose a major economic problem for europe. plus, golden boots. europes wealthiest football league season kicks off later. with wages and transfer fees continuing to soar, are the premier leagues finances getting out of control? hello and welcome to bbc news. we start here in the uk, where figures out shortly are expected to confirm the british economy continues to stagnate. economic growth for the three months to the en...

The population of Japanese nationals fell by about 800,000 people, or 0.65%, to 122.4 million in 2022 from the previous year. | World News

Japanese citizen population declines at record pace, while foreign residents reach a new high of nearly 3 million.

Weather system kind of on the horizon which is sort of you have a lot of demographic pressure building up in africa. which is destined to gain about a billion people in the next generation. and you have a shrinking population in europe. and that means that whatever were seeing in the mediterranean now, is going to increase. you know, and on top of that, you have this -- one hopes temporary -- dislocation of a lot of ukrainians which is causing acute problems too. >> would it be fair to say, i me...

In africa which is destined to gain about a billion people in the next generation, and you have a shrinking population in europe, and that means that whatever were seeing in the mediterranean now is going to increase, and on top of that you have this, one hopes, temporary dislocation of a lot of ukrainians which is creating certain acute problems, too. >> and would it be fair to say, there is this conventional wisdom, i would say that the europeans are not as good at assimilating immigrants as a...

What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?