More than one-fifth of all births in Ireland will be to foreign mothers in 2021, according to statistics released by the Irish government.
More than 22 percent of children born in the Irish state will be foreigners in 2021, according to official government statistics released Thursday.
More than 10 percent of new mothers are from other EU countries and 2 percent hold UK citizenship, according to data released by the Irish Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Meanwhile, only ten percent of children are registered as non-EU mothers born in the UK.
The majority of all these births, more than 58 percent, were recorded as born out of wedlock, while the percentage of children born out of wedlock increased slightly from the previous year.
This is as countries across Europe struggle to maintain their birth rates and the continent’s rapidly aging population is often used by keynote speakers to incite further immigration.
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Although the number of births slightly increased in 2021 compared to 2020, the number of children born each year across the country is decreasing, with only 58,443 born last year compared to 74,033 in 2011.
In this sense, Ireland is similar to its European neighbours, many of whom have begun to seriously struggle with falling birth rates over the past few decades.
In countries like the UK, Italy and Spain, birth rates have fallen due to China’s coronavirus lockout, and other European countries are pursuing pro-family policies in hopes of encouraging their citizens to have more children.
However, some other cosmopolitan-minded people may have a different opinion: an AI researcher suggests that the next generation will soon use computer-generated children living in a digital “metaverse” to replace actual descendants.
Researchers say this generation of Tamagotchi doll lovers will embrace technology instead of their own children, in part because planet Earth fears overpopulation.
“Virtual kids may seem like a giant leap from where we are today, but in 50 years technology will be so big that kids in the metaverse will no longer be indistinguishable from kids in the real world,” he said.
“As the meta-universe changes, I see virtual children becoming an accepted and fully accepted part of society in most of the developed world,” he continued. “We are on track to create a generation of Tamagotchi who will be ‘right’ to their families in every way.”
Source: Breitbart
