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Immigration cannot hold a rich country's working-age population steady, because doing so would require it to become 40 to 50 per cent foreign-born.

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demographics Who there will be: birth rates, population decline, and what a shrinking cohort does to everything downstream.

Lant Pritchett

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  1. Alice Evans Senior lecturer in international development at King's College London
    For rich countries to maintain their working-age population ratios in 2050 through permanent migration (where each worker brings one dependent), Lant Pritchett estimates they would need to become 40-50% foreign-born.

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