Covidians are classic authoritarian followers. They have all the markers and they're always in lockstep. The refuseniks, in contrast, are all over the place ideologically as well as in personality type.
Trust is massive. I would argue it is the most important.
And it is something prone to change, unlike many other factors in the list.
A contrarian from birth. There was a time when I trusted most things, all people, and the (now)obvious lies from governments. Hard to square that, but the trust vector was stronger than the other.
Then some things happened. A devastating trial, or series thereof. A glimpse behind the Kabuki. Trust shattered and isn't coming back. Much like critical reasoning in the masses. Or immune systems.
And it is like each lie has its own flashing red light now. Each cabal shyster stands out like the Luciferian puppet they are. Even without a sense of smell anymore, the sulfur is pungent.
I have no doubt that the Monster employs more psychologists and psychiatrists than any other domain. More than New Mockingbird Media, filled as it is with them and ex-TLA Agency types. Those nice souls that set up Prism and other mass surveillance tools while working in/for the DC Sewer.
They mapped out our responses. They shaped our thinking, our behaviours. Over generations.
If they didn't leave anything to chance, then what is their next play?
Are we seeing it now in France? Ethnic cleansing against those few who will stand against the invading/marauding horde? Islamists being used as a battering ram, as ever, by another group?
There is a problem with the premise of the study. It assumes that there are no actual conspiracies and those who suspect them are delusional. Also there are people who se through the Covid propaganda but but the Ukraine propaganda. I say, "Don't be a conspiracy theorist, don't be a conspiracy denier. Be a conspiracy hypothesist or a conspiracy detector." Follow the facts, follow the money, consider possibility, plausibility, don't be attached to outcome. Be willing to adapt your belief to evidence. I have written a few pieces that address these phenomena.
"Accusation in a mirror (AiM), mirror politics,[1] mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, or mirror argument is a hate-speech incitement technique where one falsely attributes to one's adversaries the intentions that one has for oneself and/or the actions that one is in the process of enacting.[2][3][4] It has been cited, along with dehumanization, as one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide,"
"By invoking collective self-defense, propaganda is used to justify genocide, just as self-defense is a defense for individual homicide. Susan Benesch remarked that while dehumanization 'makes genocide seem acceptable', accusation in a mirror makes it seem necessary."
So AiM is like projection then? They project onto others their own motivations, and thus come to believe that only by entire removal of these 'other' can they be 'safe"? (unchallenged).
Before this all plays out, a decade or two from now based loosely on prophetic passages in the judeo-christian scriptures, it will be clear that this is a spiritual (Luciferian) pogram against humanity broadly ("population reduction"), with a focus on Christians in particular (and political fellow travelers as far as ideology goes).
There is a human tendency to blame or disparage those whose beliefs threaten us or make us feel more insecure. "The poor gullible types just go with the flow," isn't entirely true. With all the fear of infection and belief in the "criminality" of the unvaccinated, it's very natural to get angry at those citizens who are not performing their civic duty. Remember, Noam Chomsky said that unvaccinated people should get vaccinated. Just as we obey seat belt laws to avoid adverse traffic events and even death--we should obey public health vaccine mandates to ensure herd immunity. And Chomsky used to be thought of as a proponent of peace and free speech!
How many of you got rejected or criticized from government authorities, comedians, friends or relatives? Do you remember Biden urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, saying, "My patience is wearing thin!" A good friend said, "If you want to remain unvaccinated--then you have to be prepared to take the consequences!" Another friend said that if I said one more word about vaccines or Ivermectin, she would scream. She is perfectly protected with mRNA vaccine so she doesn't need or want any treatments for Covid. She will cancel me if I bring up vaccines.
Are these innocent, gullible sheep? Or are these terrified human people using their belief in government authority ready to punish those they perceive as a threat to their health and safety?
I believe Vera Sherov pointed out that the Nazi restrictions on the Jews started with blaming them for outbreaks of Typhoid infection.
A Belgian psychoanalyst, Matthias Desmet, has theorized that people in this atomized society experience anxiety and then find they can to lower their anxiety by finding out groups to blame. VERY difficult not to feel superior in our beliefs. I do agree that belief in vaccine mandates and vaccine safety/efficacy has become increasingly politicized for the last 3 years. Say anything anti mRNA, and the Dems will brand you a Trump supporter and ban you from Twitter and Facebook.
Excellent insight. I was a non conformer. I have NO trust in my Gov't and the whole situation didn't pass the smell test. Deep down, I KNEW something was wrong, and I could not articulate why I felt that way. But as things progressed, I realized people were being manipulated from fear - fear was the thing that was altering their behaviors. They'd been conned into being part of a huge GENE modifying never before tried 'shot' - risking god knew what side effects, for the promise of 'safety'. Because (trust) they knew the Gov't wouldn't lie to me or make me do what isn't in my best interests... So without the fear to shut down rational thinking and questioning and risk assessment, and without the large amount of TRUST in the Gov't, the operation would not have been able to proceed.
Yes! Think of H1N1 a few years earlier. Ho Hum. I hardly paid attention. 26 or 27 deaths--and they shut it down. There were always pandemics and threats of pandemics that we all ignored. I was a little scared by ebola--but nothing really caught fire until now. Why do you think that's so? More and more government power?
No, it has been the plan for many decades, meticulously worked on on multiple fronts: https://www.bitchute.com/video/LAv0IwreZMi2/ (a link by Amy Harlib in the next post of mine). My response: "I bet the crazy woman head of state Dr. Rima Laibow had been talking about was the Prime Minister of New Zealand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark). She resigned in 2009 to become the 1st female head of the UN Development Programme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme): "The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development." Sounds pretty sinister to me.
Also, she is an active WEF contributor (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/helen-clark): "Co-Chaired The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response mandated by the World Health Assembly, 2020-2021"
But isn't fear a major difference now? I think also the ability to censor and the ability to control most of the media as Bill Gates et al got control over major media, major medical journals enabled our governments (yes, plural because this vaccine push is a global endeavor) to feed us propaganda about how safe and wonderful vaccines are and then start enforcing vaccine mandates and travel bans. I agree with you the mRNA vaccine promotion didn't just spring full blown from nowhere. But surely they would have implemented this program years earlier if they had the ability to do so. I think the rise of surveillance abilities (couldn't do vaccine passports without 5G and ubiquitous smart phones), bitcoin technologies (enabling social currency in the China model), grooming us to accept automatic updates (so convenient!). Yes Rockefeller and HItler both agreed on eugenics and depopulation. That was 80 years ago!
All true. Here's the UN on world population growth. Pay attention to the part about FERTILITY dropping and other things. Can you SEE where the jabs come in? I can. And this is their 'justification' for what they do...
Most of the global increase is attributable to a small number of countries
From 2017 to 2050, it is expected that half of the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uganda and Indonesia (ordered by their expected contribution to total growth).
The group of 47 least developed countries (LDCs) continues to have a relatively high level of fertility, which stood at 4.3 births per woman in 2010-2015. As a result, the population of these countries has been growing rapidly, at around 2.4 % per year. Although this rate of increase is expected to slow significantly over the coming decades, the combined population of the LDCs, roughly one billion in 2017, is projected to increase by 33 % between 2017 and 2030, and to reach 1.9 billion persons in 2050.
Similarly, Africa continues to experience high rates of population growth. Between 2017 and 2050, the populations of 26 African countries are projected to expand to at least double their current size.
The concentration of global population growth in the poorest countries presents a considerable challenge to governments in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to end poverty and hunger, expand and update health and education systems, achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, reduce inequality and ensure that no one is left behind.
Slower world population growth due to lower fertility rates
In recent years, fertility has declined in nearly all regions of the world. Even in Africa, where fertility levels are the highest of any region, total fertility has fallen from 5.1 births per woman in 2000-2005 to 4.7 in 2010-2015.
Europe has been an exception to this trend in recent years, with total fertility increasing from 1.4 births per woman in 2000-2005 to 1.6 in 2010-2015.
More and more countries now have fertility rates below the level required for the replacement of successive generations (roughly 2.1 births per woman), and some have been in this situation for several decades. During 2010-2015, fertility was below the replacement level in 83 countries comprising 46 % of the world’s population. The ten most populous countries in this group are China, the United States of America, Brazil, the Russian Federation, Japan, Viet Nam, Germany, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Thailand, and the United Kingdom (in order of population size).
Lower fertility leads also to ageing populations
The report highlights that a reduction in the fertility level results not only in a slower pace of population growth but also in an older population.
Compared to 2017, the number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to more than double by 2050 and to more than triple by 2100, rising from 962 million globally in 2017 to 2.1 billion in 2050 and 3.1 billion in 2100.
In Europe, 25% of the population is already aged 60 years or over. That proportion is projected to reach 35% in 2050 and to remain around that level in the second half of the century. Populations in other regions are also projected to age significantly over the next several decades and continuing through 2100. Africa, for example, which has the youngest age distribution of any region, is projected to experience a rapid ageing of its population. Although the African population will remain relatively young for several more decades, the percentage of its population aged 60 or over is expected to rise from 5% in 2017 to around 9% in 2050, and then to nearly 20% by the end of the century.
Globally, the number of persons aged 80 or over is projected to triple by 2050, from 137 million in 2017 to 425 million in 2050. By 2100 it is expected to increase to 909 million, nearly seven times its value in 2017.
Population ageing is projected to have a profound effect on societies, underscoring the fiscal and political pressures that the health care, old-age pension and social protection systems of many countries are likely to face in the coming decades.
Higher life expectancy worldwide
Substantial improvements in life expectancy have occurred in recent years. Globally, life expectancy at birth has risen from 65 years for men and 69 years for women in 2000-2005 to 69 years for men and 73 years for women in 2010-2015. Nevertheless, large disparities across countries remain.
Although all regions shared in the recent rise of life expectancy, the greatest gains were for Africa, where life expectancy rose by 6.6 years between 2000-2005 and 2010-2015 after rising by less than 2 years over the previous decade.
The gap in life expectancy at birth between the least developed countries and other developing countries narrowed from 11 years in 2000-2005 to 8 years in 2010-2015. Although differences in life expectancy across regions and income groups are projected to persist in future years, such differences are expected to diminish significantly by 2045-2050.
The increased level and reduced variability in life expectancy have been due to many factors, including a lower under-five mortality rate, which fell by more than 30 % in 89 countries between 2000-2005 and 2010-2015. Other factors include continuing reductions in fatalities due to HIV/AIDS and progress in combating other infectious as well as non-communicable diseases.
Large movements of refugees and other migrants
There continue to be large movements of migrants between regions, often from low- and middle-income countries toward high-income countries. The volume of the net inflow of migrants to high-income countries in 2010-2015 (3.2 million per year) represented a decline from a peak attained in 2005-2010 (4.5 million per year). Although international migration at or around current levels will be insufficient to compensate fully for the expected loss of population tied to low levels of fertility, especially in the European region, the movement of people between countries can help attenuate some of the adverse consequences of population ageing.
The report observes that the Syrian refugee crisis has had a major impact on levels and patterns of international migration in recent years, affecting several countries. The estimated net outflow from the Syrian Arab Republic was 4.2 million persons in 2010-2015. Most of these refugees went to Syria’s neighbouring countries, contributing to a substantial increase in the net inflow of migrants especially to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
"Compared to 2017, the number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to more than double by 2050". We now have a solution for that: keep up-to-date on your mRNA jabs, folks! And keep up with your kids' vaccination schedules!
Your post is incredibly knowledgeable. What is your background? I have a doctorate in sociology completed in 1980. Tracking population growth was one branch of sociology at Columbia University where I attended. It's incredibly important, but I never realized how necessary tracking populations is to forecasting trends and understanding global policies. I was more interested in sociolinguistics and epidemiology.
Ps. note that 2.1 is replacement level and if you are lower than that you will be in a deficit and soon a population trap... so... put your thinking cap on and you can SEE what they are planning and what they have done. They need to rein in Africa, India and did you notice USA and Indonesia?!!!!
I really must thank you for sharing such an amusing study, Andreas; it's good to have a nice chuckle in the morning. I'll read the whole thing, but if it's all as good as this, It'll take a while to finish, what with waiting for the laughter to subside:
"Considerable heterogeneity was found within these relations––especially when individual variables were lumped together under a single domain––and we identified potential boundary conditions in these relations (e.g., type of conspiracy)."
So... arbitrary concentration of association into a domain construct results in "finding" heterogeneity? Well, doggone, who'd a thunk it?
Being inclined to strop Hanlon's Razor before evaluating any behavioral exhibition, I'm finding it rather droll to observe this heterogeneous assignment of variables offered as correlation with a proclivity toward....... assignment of possibly heterogeneous variables.
I observe that individuals without close familial and community supports are moved toward getting behind authority movements because they feel lack of individual support. If the "govt" message is wrong there is no one to turn to - so they reject questioning the prevailing idea being pushed. Canada's freedom convey is a case in question - they questioned govt narrative - and wanted to engage in discussion. (This point side steps all the hysterical nonsense such as they wanted to take over govt and were aggressively doing something or the other).
The response was a wholly over the top aggressive response by govt to individuals who question following the govt line of thinking without any questioning. Those individuals who did not question anything the govt did were wholly behind this aggressive approach. If those individuals were right the followers world fall apart - so best stay in line and let the govt do your thinking for you
So true, even if the study summary has to contradict the study data.
This one looks like another case of a “study” done with a prefabricated conclusion, and lack of access to the data that justifies this conclusion. I say this only by looking at the diagram, perhaps there is more to it. It is pushing the idea that those who refuse establishment narratives do so because they are craven right wing ideologues.
Covidians are easier to create out of lefties, but plenty of others fell for the smoke-and-mirrors fear porn.
If I understand that ranking, Trust is correlated negatively? Eg. the single biggest degerminator is you have to have TRUST? If you are NOT a trusting person - then you are more likely to be blue pilled?
Covidians are classic authoritarian followers. They have all the markers and they're always in lockstep. The refuseniks, in contrast, are all over the place ideologically as well as in personality type.
Trust is massive. I would argue it is the most important.
And it is something prone to change, unlike many other factors in the list.
A contrarian from birth. There was a time when I trusted most things, all people, and the (now)obvious lies from governments. Hard to square that, but the trust vector was stronger than the other.
Then some things happened. A devastating trial, or series thereof. A glimpse behind the Kabuki. Trust shattered and isn't coming back. Much like critical reasoning in the masses. Or immune systems.
And it is like each lie has its own flashing red light now. Each cabal shyster stands out like the Luciferian puppet they are. Even without a sense of smell anymore, the sulfur is pungent.
I have no doubt that the Monster employs more psychologists and psychiatrists than any other domain. More than New Mockingbird Media, filled as it is with them and ex-TLA Agency types. Those nice souls that set up Prism and other mass surveillance tools while working in/for the DC Sewer.
They mapped out our responses. They shaped our thinking, our behaviours. Over generations.
If they didn't leave anything to chance, then what is their next play?
Are we seeing it now in France? Ethnic cleansing against those few who will stand against the invading/marauding horde? Islamists being used as a battering ram, as ever, by another group?
Peace.
Islamists used as a battering ram, my thoughts exactly
There is a problem with the premise of the study. It assumes that there are no actual conspiracies and those who suspect them are delusional. Also there are people who se through the Covid propaganda but but the Ukraine propaganda. I say, "Don't be a conspiracy theorist, don't be a conspiracy denier. Be a conspiracy hypothesist or a conspiracy detector." Follow the facts, follow the money, consider possibility, plausibility, don't be attached to outcome. Be willing to adapt your belief to evidence. I have written a few pieces that address these phenomena.
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/who-refused-the-covid-shots
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-truth-tellers-inspired
https://coronawise.substack.com/p/heroic-doctors
https://twitter.com/i/status/1675479112993964032
JP Morgan is going to partner with I forget what US govt entity to create a 'development' bank for.. Ukraine. Money laundering anyone?
"Accusation in a mirror (AiM), mirror politics,[1] mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, or mirror argument is a hate-speech incitement technique where one falsely attributes to one's adversaries the intentions that one has for oneself and/or the actions that one is in the process of enacting.[2][3][4] It has been cited, along with dehumanization, as one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide,"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
"By invoking collective self-defense, propaganda is used to justify genocide, just as self-defense is a defense for individual homicide. Susan Benesch remarked that while dehumanization 'makes genocide seem acceptable', accusation in a mirror makes it seem necessary."
So AiM is like projection then? They project onto others their own motivations, and thus come to believe that only by entire removal of these 'other' can they be 'safe"? (unchallenged).
For sure, RWA is the LWA, or A in general. Why on earth they say it's RW in beyond me.
Before this all plays out, a decade or two from now based loosely on prophetic passages in the judeo-christian scriptures, it will be clear that this is a spiritual (Luciferian) pogram against humanity broadly ("population reduction"), with a focus on Christians in particular (and political fellow travelers as far as ideology goes).
There is a human tendency to blame or disparage those whose beliefs threaten us or make us feel more insecure. "The poor gullible types just go with the flow," isn't entirely true. With all the fear of infection and belief in the "criminality" of the unvaccinated, it's very natural to get angry at those citizens who are not performing their civic duty. Remember, Noam Chomsky said that unvaccinated people should get vaccinated. Just as we obey seat belt laws to avoid adverse traffic events and even death--we should obey public health vaccine mandates to ensure herd immunity. And Chomsky used to be thought of as a proponent of peace and free speech!
How many of you got rejected or criticized from government authorities, comedians, friends or relatives? Do you remember Biden urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted, saying, "My patience is wearing thin!" A good friend said, "If you want to remain unvaccinated--then you have to be prepared to take the consequences!" Another friend said that if I said one more word about vaccines or Ivermectin, she would scream. She is perfectly protected with mRNA vaccine so she doesn't need or want any treatments for Covid. She will cancel me if I bring up vaccines.
Are these innocent, gullible sheep? Or are these terrified human people using their belief in government authority ready to punish those they perceive as a threat to their health and safety?
I believe Vera Sherov pointed out that the Nazi restrictions on the Jews started with blaming them for outbreaks of Typhoid infection.
A Belgian psychoanalyst, Matthias Desmet, has theorized that people in this atomized society experience anxiety and then find they can to lower their anxiety by finding out groups to blame. VERY difficult not to feel superior in our beliefs. I do agree that belief in vaccine mandates and vaccine safety/efficacy has become increasingly politicized for the last 3 years. Say anything anti mRNA, and the Dems will brand you a Trump supporter and ban you from Twitter and Facebook.
Excellent insight. I was a non conformer. I have NO trust in my Gov't and the whole situation didn't pass the smell test. Deep down, I KNEW something was wrong, and I could not articulate why I felt that way. But as things progressed, I realized people were being manipulated from fear - fear was the thing that was altering their behaviors. They'd been conned into being part of a huge GENE modifying never before tried 'shot' - risking god knew what side effects, for the promise of 'safety'. Because (trust) they knew the Gov't wouldn't lie to me or make me do what isn't in my best interests... So without the fear to shut down rational thinking and questioning and risk assessment, and without the large amount of TRUST in the Gov't, the operation would not have been able to proceed.
Yes! Think of H1N1 a few years earlier. Ho Hum. I hardly paid attention. 26 or 27 deaths--and they shut it down. There were always pandemics and threats of pandemics that we all ignored. I was a little scared by ebola--but nothing really caught fire until now. Why do you think that's so? More and more government power?
No, it has been the plan for many decades, meticulously worked on on multiple fronts: https://www.bitchute.com/video/LAv0IwreZMi2/ (a link by Amy Harlib in the next post of mine). My response: "I bet the crazy woman head of state Dr. Rima Laibow had been talking about was the Prime Minister of New Zealand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clark). She resigned in 2009 to become the 1st female head of the UN Development Programme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme): "The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development." Sounds pretty sinister to me.
Also, she is an active WEF contributor (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/helen-clark): "Co-Chaired The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response mandated by the World Health Assembly, 2020-2021"
So, back in or even before 2010 she spilled the beans on the depop mindset of the elites, then went to work exactly on that: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/helen-clark-covid-pandemic-preparedness-agenda-dialogues/ (a must-watch at 27:20 onward, where she is pushing for the dictatorial powers of the WHO).
And she's concerned with women's health now in WEF: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/economics-of-women-s-health"
But isn't fear a major difference now? I think also the ability to censor and the ability to control most of the media as Bill Gates et al got control over major media, major medical journals enabled our governments (yes, plural because this vaccine push is a global endeavor) to feed us propaganda about how safe and wonderful vaccines are and then start enforcing vaccine mandates and travel bans. I agree with you the mRNA vaccine promotion didn't just spring full blown from nowhere. But surely they would have implemented this program years earlier if they had the ability to do so. I think the rise of surveillance abilities (couldn't do vaccine passports without 5G and ubiquitous smart phones), bitcoin technologies (enabling social currency in the China model), grooming us to accept automatic updates (so convenient!). Yes Rockefeller and HItler both agreed on eugenics and depopulation. That was 80 years ago!
All true. Here's the UN on world population growth. Pay attention to the part about FERTILITY dropping and other things. Can you SEE where the jabs come in? I can. And this is their 'justification' for what they do...
Most of the global increase is attributable to a small number of countries
From 2017 to 2050, it is expected that half of the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uganda and Indonesia (ordered by their expected contribution to total growth).
The group of 47 least developed countries (LDCs) continues to have a relatively high level of fertility, which stood at 4.3 births per woman in 2010-2015. As a result, the population of these countries has been growing rapidly, at around 2.4 % per year. Although this rate of increase is expected to slow significantly over the coming decades, the combined population of the LDCs, roughly one billion in 2017, is projected to increase by 33 % between 2017 and 2030, and to reach 1.9 billion persons in 2050.
Similarly, Africa continues to experience high rates of population growth. Between 2017 and 2050, the populations of 26 African countries are projected to expand to at least double their current size.
The concentration of global population growth in the poorest countries presents a considerable challenge to governments in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which seeks to end poverty and hunger, expand and update health and education systems, achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, reduce inequality and ensure that no one is left behind.
Slower world population growth due to lower fertility rates
In recent years, fertility has declined in nearly all regions of the world. Even in Africa, where fertility levels are the highest of any region, total fertility has fallen from 5.1 births per woman in 2000-2005 to 4.7 in 2010-2015.
Europe has been an exception to this trend in recent years, with total fertility increasing from 1.4 births per woman in 2000-2005 to 1.6 in 2010-2015.
More and more countries now have fertility rates below the level required for the replacement of successive generations (roughly 2.1 births per woman), and some have been in this situation for several decades. During 2010-2015, fertility was below the replacement level in 83 countries comprising 46 % of the world’s population. The ten most populous countries in this group are China, the United States of America, Brazil, the Russian Federation, Japan, Viet Nam, Germany, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Thailand, and the United Kingdom (in order of population size).
Lower fertility leads also to ageing populations
The report highlights that a reduction in the fertility level results not only in a slower pace of population growth but also in an older population.
Compared to 2017, the number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to more than double by 2050 and to more than triple by 2100, rising from 962 million globally in 2017 to 2.1 billion in 2050 and 3.1 billion in 2100.
In Europe, 25% of the population is already aged 60 years or over. That proportion is projected to reach 35% in 2050 and to remain around that level in the second half of the century. Populations in other regions are also projected to age significantly over the next several decades and continuing through 2100. Africa, for example, which has the youngest age distribution of any region, is projected to experience a rapid ageing of its population. Although the African population will remain relatively young for several more decades, the percentage of its population aged 60 or over is expected to rise from 5% in 2017 to around 9% in 2050, and then to nearly 20% by the end of the century.
Globally, the number of persons aged 80 or over is projected to triple by 2050, from 137 million in 2017 to 425 million in 2050. By 2100 it is expected to increase to 909 million, nearly seven times its value in 2017.
Population ageing is projected to have a profound effect on societies, underscoring the fiscal and political pressures that the health care, old-age pension and social protection systems of many countries are likely to face in the coming decades.
Higher life expectancy worldwide
Substantial improvements in life expectancy have occurred in recent years. Globally, life expectancy at birth has risen from 65 years for men and 69 years for women in 2000-2005 to 69 years for men and 73 years for women in 2010-2015. Nevertheless, large disparities across countries remain.
Although all regions shared in the recent rise of life expectancy, the greatest gains were for Africa, where life expectancy rose by 6.6 years between 2000-2005 and 2010-2015 after rising by less than 2 years over the previous decade.
The gap in life expectancy at birth between the least developed countries and other developing countries narrowed from 11 years in 2000-2005 to 8 years in 2010-2015. Although differences in life expectancy across regions and income groups are projected to persist in future years, such differences are expected to diminish significantly by 2045-2050.
The increased level and reduced variability in life expectancy have been due to many factors, including a lower under-five mortality rate, which fell by more than 30 % in 89 countries between 2000-2005 and 2010-2015. Other factors include continuing reductions in fatalities due to HIV/AIDS and progress in combating other infectious as well as non-communicable diseases.
Large movements of refugees and other migrants
There continue to be large movements of migrants between regions, often from low- and middle-income countries toward high-income countries. The volume of the net inflow of migrants to high-income countries in 2010-2015 (3.2 million per year) represented a decline from a peak attained in 2005-2010 (4.5 million per year). Although international migration at or around current levels will be insufficient to compensate fully for the expected loss of population tied to low levels of fertility, especially in the European region, the movement of people between countries can help attenuate some of the adverse consequences of population ageing.
The report observes that the Syrian refugee crisis has had a major impact on levels and patterns of international migration in recent years, affecting several countries. The estimated net outflow from the Syrian Arab Republic was 4.2 million persons in 2010-2015. Most of these refugees went to Syria’s neighbouring countries, contributing to a substantial increase in the net inflow of migrants especially to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
"Compared to 2017, the number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to more than double by 2050". We now have a solution for that: keep up-to-date on your mRNA jabs, folks! And keep up with your kids' vaccination schedules!
Your post is incredibly knowledgeable. What is your background? I have a doctorate in sociology completed in 1980. Tracking population growth was one branch of sociology at Columbia University where I attended. It's incredibly important, but I never realized how necessary tracking populations is to forecasting trends and understanding global policies. I was more interested in sociolinguistics and epidemiology.
Ps. note that 2.1 is replacement level and if you are lower than that you will be in a deficit and soon a population trap... so... put your thinking cap on and you can SEE what they are planning and what they have done. They need to rein in Africa, India and did you notice USA and Indonesia?!!!!
I really must thank you for sharing such an amusing study, Andreas; it's good to have a nice chuckle in the morning. I'll read the whole thing, but if it's all as good as this, It'll take a while to finish, what with waiting for the laughter to subside:
"Considerable heterogeneity was found within these relations––especially when individual variables were lumped together under a single domain––and we identified potential boundary conditions in these relations (e.g., type of conspiracy)."
So... arbitrary concentration of association into a domain construct results in "finding" heterogeneity? Well, doggone, who'd a thunk it?
Being inclined to strop Hanlon's Razor before evaluating any behavioral exhibition, I'm finding it rather droll to observe this heterogeneous assignment of variables offered as correlation with a proclivity toward....... assignment of possibly heterogeneous variables.
It's rather amusing, yet they claim some tangible results out of this mess...
I’ve never seen anyone disappear up their own asshole, but I suspect if I followed one of these “scientists” around, I might.
Lol!
Up is down. Black is white.
I observe that individuals without close familial and community supports are moved toward getting behind authority movements because they feel lack of individual support. If the "govt" message is wrong there is no one to turn to - so they reject questioning the prevailing idea being pushed. Canada's freedom convey is a case in question - they questioned govt narrative - and wanted to engage in discussion. (This point side steps all the hysterical nonsense such as they wanted to take over govt and were aggressively doing something or the other).
The response was a wholly over the top aggressive response by govt to individuals who question following the govt line of thinking without any questioning. Those individuals who did not question anything the govt did were wholly behind this aggressive approach. If those individuals were right the followers world fall apart - so best stay in line and let the govt do your thinking for you
Let me break it down for you even simpler: Red pilled think for themselves and Blue pilled need others to think for them. There, that’s it.
Spot on
The stats say what those who made the research studies want them to prove. Every time.
So true, even if the study summary has to contradict the study data.
This one looks like another case of a “study” done with a prefabricated conclusion, and lack of access to the data that justifies this conclusion. I say this only by looking at the diagram, perhaps there is more to it. It is pushing the idea that those who refuse establishment narratives do so because they are craven right wing ideologues.
Covidians are easier to create out of lefties, but plenty of others fell for the smoke-and-mirrors fear porn.
CovIDIANS are the same losers who kept on trying to be 'cool' from grade 9 onwards.... their purpose in life is to fit in.
Nailed it
If I understand that ranking, Trust is correlated negatively? Eg. the single biggest degerminator is you have to have TRUST? If you are NOT a trusting person - then you are more likely to be blue pilled?
No, the opposite.
"Bullshit receptivity"? Exactly what I don't have!
And who gets to define "bullshit"?
Why, the bullshitters, of course!
Ah yes - the mirror!
Purveyors of The Science.