Saturday, January 8, 2011

What 1% population growth means

Investments that might not make sense now, like a barely viable business on the outer suburbs can become incredible businesses in time with sustained population growth.  The same with land that is currently on the fringe of a city, if the city doubled in size, it may be on prime developable land.  This is how a lot of families have become very rich through time.

Lets look at the 4 big anglo-saxon nations and their population growth and what it means long run.

Canada:  34 million  (1%)
Australia:  22 million (1%)
United Kingdom: 62 million (0.5%)
America:  310 million  (1%)

Total:  428 million

In 2100, 90 years from now what the populations would be on this course:

Canada:  83 million
Australia:  54 million
United Kingdom:  97 million
America:  759 million

Total 2100:  993 million

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