David Goldman, aka Spengler, has written extensively about demography.
In 2011 we highlighted his argument that Israel is an emerging demographic superpower:
Like the vanishing point in a perspective painting, long-term projections help us order our perceptions of what we see in front of us today. Here’s one to think about, fresh from the just-released update of the United Nations’ population forecasts: At constant fertility, Israel will have more young people by the end of this century than either Turkey or Iran, and more than German, Italy or Spain.
Israel Demographic Chart Spengler Article
In The Asia Times, he highlights Iran’s demographic death grip of high STD-caused infertility and plummeting birth rates, The Strategic Implications of Iran’s STD Epidemic (h/t MidEast Forum):
In the 5th Century BC, the “Persian disease” noted by Hippocrates probably was bubonic plague; in 8th-century Japan, it meant the measles. Today it well might mean chlamydia. Standout levels of infertility among Iranian couples, a major cause of the country’s falling birth rate, coincide with epidemic levels of sexually transmitted disease. Both reflect deep-seated social pathologies. Iran has become a country radically different from the vision of its theocratic rulers, with prevailing social pathologies quite at odds with the self-image of radical Islam.

Iran’s fertility decline from about seven children per female in 1979 to just 1.6 in 2012 remains a conundrum to demographers. Never before in recorded history has the birth rate of a big country fallen so fast and so far.
Iran Fertility Chart Spengler
The infertility rate in Iran is particularly shocking:
Iran has the highest incidence of lifetime infertility of any country in the world, estimated at between 22% and 25% in separate Iranian government surveys. Roughly a quarter of Iranian couples, that is, are unable to bear children.
By comparison, lifetime infertility ranges from 11% in Europe and 15% in India. The Iranian data are more extensive than in most other countries because Iran’s government has devoted enormous resources to finding explanations and remedies for its uniquely high infertility rate.
The lifetime infertility in selected countries: Iran (year of survey 2004-2005) 24.9%; Australia(1991-1993) 18.4%; Denmark (1995) 15.7%; Indian Kashmir (1997) 15.1%; UK (1988) 14.1%; France (1988) 12.2%; Europe (1991-1993) 11.3%; Norway (1985-1995) 6.6%.
One explanation for Iran’s strikingly infertility rate is the high level of consanguineous (cousin) marriages, that is, inbreeding….
A more probable cause of Iran’s extremely high rate of infertility is sexually transmitted disease, particularly chlamydia, the most common bacterial STD and one likely to go undetected in countries with poor public health systems. This may seem incongruous, for the Islamic Republic of Iran represents itself as the guardian of social standards against Western decadence. Nonetheless, the government’s own data strongly support this inference.
This will not end well, and may explain in part Iran’s aggressive behavior and quest for a nuke, as it is doomed demographically:
We know how this will end: Iran’s economy will be crushed under an avalanche of elderly dependents a generation from now. What we do not know is what will happen en route to the end. The sad task of Iran’s neighbors is to manage its inevitable decline and prevent its own sense of national tragedy from turning into tragedies for other peoples as well. Iran’s position is without precedent among the nations of the world. It knows as a matter of arithmetic that it has no future. Its leadership feels that it has nothing to lose in strategic adventures, which means that the rest of the world should take no chances with Iran.
Of course, this decline will take place over decades. Which is little comfort to Israel.

In the long run, Israel will outlast the Mullah-regime. It just has to hang on long enough.
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Would you have thought that Israel is an emerging  'demographic superpower'? Progressives and Leftists seem forever to repeat the canard that Jews just don't have a 'population place' in the Middle East. They forever predict that Jews will be outnumbered.


While they predict, Israel's Jewish population grows. 


Now we see another demographic reality about Israel--and Iran.


How is it that the truth about Israel is so different from what you read?


This question has an answer. It's an answer that also explains how Israel grows stronger even as its enemies attack.


The problem is, it's an answer you may not want to hear. It's an answer you may refuse to believe: the G-d of Israel looks out for His beloved Israel.


Put another way, Israel's Destiny was written down more than 3,300 years ago. What we see today is the fulfilment of that Destiny.


That Destiny describes Persia (Iran) playing a role in the Final War to destroy the Jewish State. Iran is Persia.


Iran says it wants to annihilate Israel. 


What will happen to Iran?


Stay tuned.