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OTL Eastern Europe saw relatively little net population growth over the last century due to a combination of the World Wars, Genicides, preventable famines, political murders, forced secularization, and emmigration. But in the early twentieth century Eastern Europe seemed to have the potential for rapid population growth, as it had low life expectancy, high total fertility, serious social conservatism, widespread illiteracy, ect...

It almost looks more like Latin America's natural potential for growth than Western Europe's (with the huge difference of Latin America getting immigrants while Eastern Europe loses them).

Given that much of Eastern Europe could double or triple their population if it retained positive TFR into the 80s with similar TFR to Latin America, and that Eastern Europe could also double its life expectancy, might increasing the population of Eastern Europe 4-5 times over be the most realistic scenario absent the twentieth centuries catastrophes?

Could we potentially get 100+ million ethnic Poles? 20 million Serbs? An overall population density similar to Western Europe?
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