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by piva00 1175 days ago
> Outside of UK, France, and to some extent, Germany, most of these countries don't even have an immigrant culture to make up for the shortfall.

Not really true, for example: Sweden has been doing above EU average on both immigration and higher birth rates (for its development level) to account for the shortfall, it's not that clear cut in Europe as a whole.

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Fair, but Sweden's population is just too small to make any meaningful impact on Europe as a whole.
For the curious Americans, Sweden has about the population of Michigan.
How many Rhode Island's is that? Or maybe more appropriately, how many Library of Congresses?
8.4152×10^7 football fields
American football or the more globally accepted term for football?
It is 388,903.23 Statues of Liberty.

Source ChatGPT.

what is summary of height for every swede person

what is average of 181 and 167

multiply 1.74 by number of swedes

divide 18,064,000 by height of statue of liberty in meters

Why.

ChatGPT can't do math right. It did both the multiply and the divide wrong, which makes it even worse than usual to have that many digits on your final answer.

Makes us even more impressive ;)
No doubt :P But understandably doesn’t have a huge absolute impact on overall European metrics.
Or the LA County
But that's moving the goalposts, Europe has a bunch of countries with small populations, Sweden is 16th in population from 40+ countries. Aside from Germany, Italy, the UK, France, Spain and Poland all the other countries will hover +- ~10 million people compared to Sweden. It's smack in the median of population size in Europe.
In all fairness, Sweden isn't exactly doing remarkably well either. It's fertility rate is still well below replacement level. It's still in terminal decline. Just a tad slower than its peers.
What is the difference between decline and terminal decline?