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Half of America’s Cities Are Depopulating. We Could Be Headed for a Ghost Town Era. (www.popularmechanics.com)
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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:

  • By studying population trends and forecasting models, researchers have come to believe that nearly 15,000 U.S. cities will face noticeable depopulation by 2100.
  • Populated areas of the cities in question could experience a decline of up to 44 percent.
  • Projections call for the biggest drops in city populations to occur in the Northeast and Midwest.
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah if you subtract immigration and first gen immigrants (>14yo at immigration is highly likely to have the same amount of kids as where they're from. <14yo is highly likely to have close to the new host nations family size) the US is already on the other side of the event horizon.

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