Friday Thought: There are about 200 nations in the world. What are the two most important questions you need to answer about every country?

What are the people in their 20s thinking and doing?

Some of them are thriving and are starting families, studying, starting companies, active in politics and investing in their culture.

Some of them are playing it safe and taking no chances and waiting to see what will happen next.

Some of them are planing to leave and go to a place where they can thrive.

Finding data on each country’s situation is difficult and the links below on population decline give part of the picture.

Is the population growing or not?

Many national populations are shrinking around the world.

Some examples:

Russia

Russia’s Demographic Vanishing Act: A Warning From History

China

A town in northeast China has shrunk by a third since 2010. Here’s one family’s story

Italy

Italy’s demographic crisis worsens as births hit record low

United Kingdom

The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating …

Japan

Japanese population down record 900,000, 16th straight yr of decline

Denmark

Declining fertility is a huge problem for Denmark

Ukraine

Ukraine stares down the barrel of population collapse

Saudi Arabia

Grim warning: Writer warns of declining population in Saudi Arabia

Middle East fertility slump: Fewer babies, big problems?

Vietnam

From baby booms to birth slumps, Vietnam has seen it all

Summary for various nations

Large Population Decline Expected in China and India

Why Japan’s Population Collapse Is Europe’s Next Disaster

My thoughts:

Some of these nations are at war. Some are not.

Denmark is usually considered a happy, contended place.

There is a global worldview crisis, People are not optimistic and see no compiling reason to invest in the future.

I believe this is a clear point of contact for evangelism.

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