[yxre]

Japan is a fascinating case. It's GDP is stable despite a shrinking population. Is it only staying stable because of the population change?

If western countries with a similar birth rate problem stopped immigration, would western countries have a similar economic outlook as Japan?

[answerisyes]

Growing gdp mostly involves fixing the bottlenecks on production. IT and technological efficiencies, integration between companies usually goes a longer way than importing the 354564th taxi driver

[FirmwareBurner]

> IT and technological efficiencies, integration between companies usually goes a longer way than importing the 354564th taxi driver

/confused Germany noises

[enkid]

Do you have any evidence of this? The more people you have the bigger the gap usually is.