Sustained below-replacement birthrates can eliminate lateral kin within thirty years

Evidence

Demographics Europe is in demographic decline, and the decline is rapid. In thirty years, if current birthrates do not increase, most Italians will have neither siblings nor first cousins. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 126

Categorization

• CANDY: Losing all siblings and first cousins in thirty years is a vivid, self-contained statistic worth repeating.