Iran does not conduct official ethnic censuses, so all figures come from CIA World Factbook, Britannica and demographic compilations. The breakdown has remained stable: Persians (Fars): 61% (~56–57 million) — majority in central, northern, and eastern provinces; dominant in Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, etc. Azerbaijanis (Azeri Turks): 16% (~15 million) — mainly northwest (East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, …
Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don’t know what will happen with future populations. However, the next 20 years are very clear for population impacts on workforce and retirement. People who will be 20 years older are alive today. …
Taiwan, South Korea and China have critically low fertility rates below 1.0. Japan is also very low (1.15) and has had low fertility for longer. By 2070, the countries could halve their current populations. A fertility rebound could avert 30-70% of projected population losses by 2100. This might stabilizing societies at near-current sizes—but only if …
Poland is getting serious about declining fertility rates which hit a record low of 1.16 births per woman in 2024. On October 16, 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed the PIT Zero for Large Families initiative into law. It exempts parents raising at least two children from personal income tax (PIT). This builds on earlier …
As of 2025, Europe’s Muslim population is estimated at around 46 million, or about 6% of the continent’s total population of roughly 745 million. This is up from 4.9% in 2016, driven by migration (about 50-60% of growth) and higher fertility rates (40-50%). Most Muslim migrants come from the Middle East and North Africa (e.g., …
The world has one billion missing lives. The economic impact of those missing lives has a 25 year delayed effect. We can see this effect in Japan which is feeling its missing 25-30 million missing people. Childbearing and childraising has an upfront cost but there is decades of delay to the true gains or true …
People who use IVF (in vitro fertilization) will soon be able to rank embryos using genetic and other information in the hopes of extending the longevity of their offspring, according to the 25-year-old entrepreneur behind Nucleus Genomics, a DNA testing and analysis company. Nucleus plans to charge $5,999 for an analysis of up to 900 …
National Security AI is a plan of geopolitical control in world of powerful AI and superintelligence. It has superintelligence strategy. I propose a robust opensource and distributed AI to all citizens of the USA and even all citizens of the world. The website https://www.nationalsecurity.ai/ explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and national security, focusing …
Jim Rickards warns of the collapse in China’s population and collapse in global population. Nextbigfuture described these issues in mid-2023 over 15 months ago. I described the collapse as worse than the black death and Jim use the same description. Jim Rickards is an economist, lawyer, and investment banker with 40 years of experience in …
Canada added about 5 million people in 5 years and will pass 42 million people shortly. The pace of Canada’s immigration and acceptance of new people is running at 1.4 to 1.5 million people each year for the past 2 years. The new people are not yet contributing fully to the economy. For 2025, Canada …
The UN reports that Asia has a total population of 4.78 billion but the UN overestimates China’s population by 16 million people. Asia is about 60% of global population. India and China make up about 60% of Asia’s population. The UN Population division has forecasted far high populations and fertility for India and China than …