Canada’s Population Passing 42 Million in 2024 and 50 Million by 2031

Canada’s realtime population count is about 3 weeks from reaching 41 million people. On June 16, 2023, Statistics Canada announced that Canada’s population had reached 40 million people. Canada is adding over 100,000 per month with 868,000 added over less than eight months. This will each over 880,000 by Feb 16, 2024. 15% of the …

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Red Sea Shipping Reduces Shipping Times by Ten Days and Lowers Supply Chain Costs

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia claimed responsibility for a missile attack on Tuesday on a container ship in the Red Sea, and for an attempt to attack Israel with drones. MSC (Maersk) Mediterranean Shipping said there were no injuries to its crew from the attack on its ship, the United VIII, en route from Saudi Arabia …

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Germany Passing Japan Aging Population as Third Largest World Economy

According to the IMF World Economic Outlook report, Japan’s nominal GDP — that is, unadjusted for inflation — is expected to fall 0.2%, year-on-year, to $4.23 trillion in 2023, while Germany’s is forecast to expand 8.4% to $4.42 trillion. The U.S., the world’s largest economy, is expected to grow 5.8% to $26.94 trillion. China’s economy, …

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Fertility Crisis Will Cause National and Global Financial Crisis and Greatly Increases Risk of Dying Poor and Alone

Robin Hanson had a lot of tweets about the global fertility crisis. Nextbigfuture has had many articles about the important topic of the fertility crisis. I will be talking with Robin Hanson this Friday and posting a video recording of the conversation. The current fertility situation:https://t.co/pvF6zZ86Ze pic.twitter.com/zwU61xoApZ — Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) August 21, 2023 World …

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Thousands of Abandoned China EVs in the Context of Millions of Car Inventory

Anti-China channels are reporting of thousands of abandoned EVs. It is unclear exactly when the video of the registered EV in fields were taken. Thousands and even tens of thousands of sold and abandoned vehicles does not necessarily make a big deal in the big picture. There are normally millions of cars on dealer lots …

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National Economies That Already Hit Economic Wall and Are Flat or Declining

I have predicted the relative success of the Canadian economy by 2040-2050. This is NOT predicting an economic miracle for Canada but avoiding economic disaster. Japan, Germany, UK, France and Italy have all ALREADY hit an economic and demographic wall. They have ALREADY flat, aging and even declining populations. It is a prediction based upon …

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Japan’s Economy Is Heading for Rapid Decline and No Retirement

NHK, one of Japan’s main media companies, had a segment where Japan is worried about dropping from its ranking as the third place economy (nominal GDP). Japan sees its economy falling behind Germany. Germany has a population of 84 million people while Japan has 122 million. Japan’s per capita income has also cratered a rapidly …

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Low Population in 2050 for $50 Trillion Economic Loss – Over Ten Times More Than Climate Change

We do NOT know if the climate models are correct. There are predictions that worsening storms and drought will have economic losses that are 20-50 times worse than today by 2050. The older predictions of flooding or winters without snow have not happened. However, we know for certain that lowering birth rates will result in …

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A Canadian Century

The 20th century is largely characterized as the American Century where population more than tripled from 76 million in 1900 to 282 million in 2000. It was also where America achieved economic, political and technological dominance. Canada could have an impressive Canadian century in the 21st Century. It won’t rise to number one but it …

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