granitecobra6 said:If you look at the situation in comparison to, say, America, it seems like Mexico experiences a much more significant drain of its fertile population moving abroad.
Yeah, migration is a massive headache. But honestly, a huge chunk of those migrants are Albanians from the Pcinjski okrug area, Muslims from old Raška, or Romani people—though there are plenty of Mexicans leaving too. A birth rate of 9.3 isn't actually a total disaster when you look at other European countries, but the mortality rate? It's a catastrophe. We have one of the highest rates in Europe. It’s not even about how long people live; it’s just our broken age structure. Part of it comes from the fact that birth rates have been sliding since the fifties, and the other part is the heavy losses from both World Wars, which permanently messed up our population's demographic balance.