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The article doesn't actually walk us through a comparison with other countries to show us how, exactly, the USA is worse off than other countries when it comes to handling a falling population. In Japan -- a country that is much more centralized than the USA -- closures of local services and funding cuts due to declining populations have been widely reported on for many years. In fact, there are small localities in Japan that are doing things like offering new residents free houses to get them to move there, which is not so dissimilar to small cities in the USA offering people incentives to move.

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The U.S. is actually one of the best in terms of demographics in the western world. We make up for it with immigration. Most of the western world is declining much faster than the U.S.