The Issues with Europe’s Declining Population

Late last week, reports indicated that Italy’s birth rate has dropped to a record low of 1.13 children per woman with only 370,000 babies born last year – which is the lowest since 1861. As a result, experts warn this decline is getting worse and shows no sign of recovery creating a serious challenge for Italy’s future population. However, what makes this a concern and departure point for today’s discussion is that this trend is not exclusive to Italy. Europe has been experiencing a multi-layered population decline issue: from the ramification of vaccines, to misguided feminist and climate alarmist ideology that vilifies having a family, to even having a larger aging population that exceeds a younger one, which further has numerous ramifications. And as you would have probably already deduced, these issues are hardly organic: instead, there are nefarious motivations behind the demographic quandary in Europe, which largely highlight concerted efforts at a depopulation agenda – and today, we ought to address this further in light of the issues with EUrope’s declining population.

THE URGENT ISSUES WITH EUROPE’S DECLINING POPULATION

The issue with Europe’s declining population. Now, you’d recall that In February 2025, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that mothers with two or more children would be exempted from income tax for life. This is the latest, and most ambitious, of his government’s attempts to reverse Hungary’s population decline. It addresses an issue which stands as a common predicament among European nations: being the declining population. 

In fact, across the UK and Europe, indigenous populations have shrunk by nearly 50 million in absolute numbers since 1990, with this decline predicted to continue. However, it is also no coincidence. It’s the result of deliberate policies and manufactured crises orchestrated by global elites who fear a unified native majority. They intentionally foment economic chaos, drive up living costs, and accelerate cultural changes that suppress family formation, pushing birth rates into the well below-replacement zone (1.4 – 1.6 million across Europe) – lest forget those pushing the depopulation agenda have said they want a cap of 500 million people in the world, which would mean a destruction of the present over 10 billion people, and the prevention of the birth of others.

But, numbers are not merely the consideration here – even though they are very important. The primary consideration is that by engineering ongoing crises, such as wars and recessions, and mass migration, those behind these issues ensure that demographics decline steadily, making people easier to control and replace. This does not happen by number only, but it also happens through consideration of who makes up the majority population that remains. For instance, as we highlighted earlier, Europe largely has an elderly population – which are people who tend to be more dependent or people whose agency is often undermined by the state. This population is easier to control because the government can conditionalise their access to necessities that they depend on on their almost passive acceptance of government dictates.

In other cases, the state could even formulate policies without much resistance from an elderly population. We can look at the End of Life Bill in the UK as an example: it was younger, working class persons who were on the streets claiming this would entail a more dignified death for their elderly relatives, while the elderly primarily supported the bill because they were concerned with being a burden. This example tells us that the political currency of the elderly is not on an equal footing as the younger, working class generation. Their considerations appear to be dictated by not wanting to be a burden to a small younger and working class generation that thinks their premature death is a legislative victory. Meanwhile, the younger population have been the most exposed to leftist and woke ideals, which would see a disproportionate and potentially unchallenged similar inclination in government and policies towards the left.

But, furthermore, the presence of a higher number of the elderly in Europe means the government has less of a responsibility towards net positive public services like education. Take Greece as an example. The country recorded the lowest birth rate in the European Union – meanwhile, the population is ageing so rapidly that schools are also closing rapidly; in fact, 721 schools are said to close in the next year – which is incredibly dangerous because an educated and politically engaged population is a crucial tenet in functional democracies.

But, all of these are just some of the primary concerns of how population decline in Europe has the capacity to shift not only the demographics in Europe, but can shift even socio-political considerations like: what the government’s mandate looks like, what legislative support and challenges may entail, which public services will be provided, and more. However, most crucial is that there are less people advocating for the best interests of those who are more dependent, thus making them vulnerable to the Multhusian and murderous aspirations of those behind the depopulation agenda  – much like we saw in Europe, during COVID.

ADDRESSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VACCINES AND BIRTH RATES IN EUROPE

But, here’s a crucial nuance to consider: Evidence is growing in Europe that many fewer babies are being born in the aftermath of the covid-19 vaccination rollouts. This widespread phenomenon is alarming doctors, data analysts, and others who say a monumental shift is being ignored. However, in response, those dismissive of the population decline trend will routinely state the issue can be explained through demographics or demographic changes. As such, we ought then to address whether demographic changes explain the issue in Europe, looking at what is called the Total Fertility Rate (TFR). In essence, to compare fertility across countries (and time), the so-called Total Fertility Rate is what is used. Roughly speaking, it is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime. But important to note is that the Total Fertility Rate is independent of the number of women and of their age structure. The figure you are seeing on screen shows the evolution of Total Fertility Rate in several European countries between 2001 and 2023, namely: Austria, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (which is represented in blue). All of these selected countries experienced a similar drop in the Total Fertility Rate in 2022 as the Czech Republic.

So, by the end of 2023, the following two points were clear. First, the drop in natality in the Czech Republic in 2022 could not be explained by demographic factors, because the TFR (as we highlighted earlier on) is definitionally and functionally independent of the number of women and their age structure (which are key demographic factors)! In addition, the data for 2024 shows that the Czech TFR has decreased further, and unique demographic factors in 2022 would likely not suffice to explain the drop in subsequent years.

Second, from the data on the screen, it reports that many other European countries experienced the same dramatic and unexpected decrease in fertility as the Czech Republic that started at the beginning of 2022. But, the ones represented in the graph on screen are not even the only countries. There are additional nations like: The Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden. Now, on the other hand, there are some countries that do not show a sudden drop in the TFR, but rather a steady decline over a longer period (particularly nations such as Belgium, France, UK, Greece, or Italy). Notable exceptions are Bulgaria, Spain, and Portugal where fertility has increased (albeit from very low numbers). All of these figures can be found at “The Human Fertility Project” database, which has all the referenced numbers and projections we’re discussing.

So, this data pattern that we have just described, which provides fertility decline) is quite amazing and unexpected that even the mainstream media in Europe cannot avoid the problem completely. However, as opposed to a critical and factual discussion of the data, what we often see on the mainstream media is that from time to time, talking heads with many academic titles appear and push the so-called politically correct narratives in an effort to explain away the fertility decline. Like we’ve already established, what they claim to be an explanation is demographic factors. But, like we have established, the TFR is definitionally independent of the number of women and their age structure (which are key demographic factors), and therefore, negates demographics as an explanation.

But, if the mainstream media academic talking heads do not try to pin the population decline on demographics, they will also opt for another politically correct narrative, which claims that the problem resides with Putin and his alleged invasion of Ukraine! But, spoiler alert: the proxy war with Ukraine started in February 2022; however, children not born in 2022 were obviously not conceived in 2021, and so, it therefore also CANNOT be Putin or the proxy war.

So, at this point, clearly, neither demographics of political developments that erupted in 2022 can explain why population decline worsened across various European nations in 2021. Well, as many ponder this question, vaccines keep coming up and the common denominator.

Here’s why vaccines are important to look into in light of the decreasing fertility rates. The Czech journalist whose work prompted our discussion today, well, he (being Tomas Furst), acquired a government database on the number of newborns in each month, broken down by age and vaccination status of the mother. Now, the data contains the number of births per month between January 2021 and December 2023 given by women (aged 18-39) who were vaccinated, in other words those who had received at least one Covid vaccine dose by the date of delivery, and by women who were unvaccinated, meaning they had not received ANY dose of any Covid vaccine by the date of delivery. 

Furthermore, the numbers of births per month by women vaccinated by one or more doses during pregnancy were provided. This enabled Tomas Furst and his team to estimate the number of women who were vaccinated before conception. They further used open data on the Czech population structure by age, and open data on Covid vaccination by day, sex, and age. Then, combining these datasets, they were able to estimate the rates of successful conceptions (meaning conceptions that led to births nine months later) by preconception vaccination status of the mother.

First, the dataset revealed that vaccinated women conceived about a third fewer children than would be expected from their share of the population. Unvaccinated women conceived at about the same rate as all women before the pandemic. Importantly, this tells us that a strong association between Covid vaccination status and successful conceptions has been established. Secondly, the dataset revealed that In the second half of 2021, there was a peak in the rate of conceptions of the UNvaccinated (and a corresponding trough in the vaccinated). This points to rather intelligent behaviour of Czech women, who – contrary to the official advice – probably avoided vaccination if they wanted to get pregnant. This concentrated the pregnancies in the unvaccinated group and produced the peak. 

Now that the association between Covid-19 vaccination and lower rates of conception has been established, the one important question looms: Is this association causal? In other words, did the Covid-19 vaccines really prevent women from getting pregnant? Well, the mainstream media and their talking heads brush off these findings and say that the difference is easily explained by confounding: more specifically, they state that the vaccinated tend to be older, more educated, city-dwelling, and more climate change aware, woke persons, among other ultra-liberal considerations. But, that all may well be factually accurate, but in early 2022, the TFR of the whole population dropped sharply and has been decreasing ever since. 

THEREFORE, something must have happened in the spring of 2021. Had the population of women just spontaneously separated into two groups – one being those who wanted kids and did NOT want the jab, and the other being the city dwellers who did NOT want children and wanted the jab – well, then the fertility rate of the UNvaccinated would indeed be much higher than that of the vaccinated. In that respect, such a selection bias could explain the observed pattern. HOWEVER, had this been true, the TFR of the whole population would have remained constant. But (of course) this is not what happened. Instead, the TFR of the whole population jumped down in January 2022 and has been decreasing ever since in the Czech Republic.

And so, if one wants to argue that a “factor X” is responsible for the drop in fertility, one will have to explain (1) firstly why the factor affected only the vaccinated, and (2) secondly why it started affecting them at about the time of vaccination. And based on the data from Czech journalist Tomas Furst, it appears that Factor X is the covid vaccine. We also recently discussed the ramifications of the Covid vaccine here on ‘The War Room’, including a study (which focused on approximately 1.3 million women), by Manniche at al, which found that COVID-19 vaccinated women had approximately 33% fewer successful pregnancies than unvaccinated women. There is also the finding in the Pfizer Papers amalgamated by Dr Noami Wolf, which show that Pfizer targeted the reproductive function of the human body, they also knew that they were blocking women’s ovaries with lipid nanoparticles, and that the lipid nanoparticles traverse the placenta. Here’s more from Dr Noami Wolf.

VACCINES HAVE A DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF BEING USED FOR POPULATION REDUCTION

Here’s why the culpability of vaccines in the war on fertility should not surprise anyone: vaccines have a well documented history of being used for population reduction – especially when we look at the tetanus vaccine. First of all, and as was highlighted by Dr Russell Blaylock, tetanus is probably one of the most ridiculous vaccines ever. Your chances of getting tetanus are about the same as walking outside and getting hit by a meteor. If you get a cut or puncture wound and you put peroxide on it, your chances of getting tetanus are zero because the tetanus organism is anaerobic. It cannot live in oxygen. In addition, Dr Russell Blaylock, highlights that tetanus comes from the bowels of animals. And so, as long as you don’t have a sheep or a cow in your actual house, you’re in any danger. BUT, the same cannot be said for the tetanus vaccine.

The tetanus vaccine has been culpable in the creation of infertility problems. And another consideration is the presence of Thimerosal (or mercury) in not only the tetanus vaccine, but other vaccines – such as the influenza vaccines.

IN ADDITION TO VACCINES, CLIMATE ALARMISM HAS CONTRIBUTED TO POPULATION DECLINE

Now, falling birthrates are not unique to Europe: China, Japan and South Korea have among the lowest fertility rates in the world. But, now, how this is often spinned by mainstream media outlets is that “A falling birthrate is simply common to all prosperous societies”. As such, headlines about falling birthrates are seldom discussed as regarded as a problem, and are even celebrated as a solution (natural or planned) to the claimed Malthusian problem of overpopulation AND climate change!

Climate change anxiety and alarmism are being used to destroy population numbers and even the family unit. But, even while there is the obvious cases of obnoxious and lawbreaking behaviour, from climate activists defacing works of art, to interrupting political events or even sporting events, to glueing themselves to buses and holding up traffic on major thoroughfares – the problem with climate anxiety runs much deeper than that. Just consider recent headlines in lamestream media publications: From Vox there was the article titled “What to do when you’re completely overwhelmed by climate anxiety.” From The Guardian they published one titled “Climate anxiety adds to teenagers’ fears.” And the New York Times’s contribution was “How Climate Change is Changing Therapy.” And perhaps most despicable of all, from the BBC, they published an article titled: “Climate anxiety: ‘I don’t want to burden the world with my child.” But, concerning the BBC’s contribution specifically, you would have noticed that the trend of climate anxious people being deterred from starting families that was explored in their article is so wide now that they have even given it a name: being “birth strike”.

Written BY Lindokuhle Mabaso