Thirty-four of the fifty lowest TFRs in the world belong to European countries. Four nations — Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina — have sunk below one child per family.
       There are currently 29 countries in the world whose population is actually declining. 25 of these are in Europe!
       The most populous countries in Europe are the Russian Federation with 141,436,000 people (ninth in the world, but rapidly declining), Germany with 82 million, and France, Italy and the United Kingdom, all with about 60 million.
       The only European country with laws that fully protect preborn children or allow for only a "life of the mother" exception is tiny Malta, home to just 0.05 percent of Europe's population. Ireland's traditional protection of preborn children is eroding rapidly, with thousands of Irish women and girls travelling legally into England for abortions each year.
       Almost all of the other European nations have actual or practical abortion on demand. These nations represent 94 percent of the total population of Europe.
       The nations of Europe are already feeling the profound demographic effects of their longtime anti-life policies. These include:

• Significant imbalances in population segments, leading to increased aging of the work force and the population. This, in turn, results in fewer workers supporting more retired people (creating great pressure on social security systems and retirement plans) and greatly increased health care costs, leading to a strong push for euthanasia.

• A great increase in the number of divorces (from 125,000 in 1960 to about 750,000 in 2004); illegitimacy (4.5 percent of all births in 1960 to about 25 percent in 2004); unemployment (from five million in 1977 to more than 15 million in 2004); and a huge increase in abortions, from about 250,000 in 1960 to more than a million today among the EC12 countries alone.[55]

• An influx of up to 50 million Muslims by 2025, mainly from North Africa. Because they are a very religious people, Muslims tend to integrate poorly with secular European society, a situation causing great tension and conflict that will only worsen in the future.[56] This state of affairs is a direct result of falling Europe birthrates; the last year "native" Europeans replaced themselves was 1973, and since then, there has been a shortfall of tens of millions of births required to replace the population.[57]

• The economic future of Europe is in grave doubt. The dreaded "Demographic Cross" feared by racists and advocates of the principle of "differential fertility" is finally coming to pass.
       In the year 1950, Europe was still relatively young, and comprised more than a fifth of the world's population. Meanwhile, Africa was home to less than ten percent of the world's people. But while Africans continued to have large families, Europeans began to abort, sterilize and contracept themselves out of existence. The continents "crossed over" in about 1995, with each possessing about one out of every eight of the world's people. By 2050, their sizes will have reversed: Africa will have more than one out of every five people, and Europe will have only one out of fourteen. Even more importantly, the average African will be barely 30 years old, while the average European will 53 years old!
       To whom will the future belong — a young, vigorous, large population, or an old, small, hopeless one?
       The answer to that question will be obvious to anyone with a background in social science.
       The table below shows the basic figures from the United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN).

       Some European countries are trying to reverse their plunging birthrates, but with little success. History shows us that once the people of a nation are conditioned to believe they should live for themselves and that children are a burden, it is virtually impossible to persuade them otherwise. The only answer is for pro-life activists to convert the hearts and minds of the people, one by one. This will take as long to do as the population controllers took to destroy the European's love of children.
       For example, European population alarmists have been exaggerating the high cost of raising kids for decades as a ploy to get people to have fewer children. When the baleful demographic effects of too few babies become evident, the governments try to retool the thinking of the people, but with little effect.
       This is why the La France a besoin des enfants! [France needs babies!] campaign failed.[58] And this is why, when the German State of Brandenburg offered to pay its citizens US $650 to have a child, there was not even the slightest blip in the birth rate. No wonder Wolfgang Jahmer, director of a social welfare program in Schwerin, Germany, said that "We have some fears that the tree of life may be falling."[59]

       The Status of Abortion Legislation in the Middle East. As of July 1, 2007, the sixteen nations and autonomous regions of the Middle East have a total population of 274,581,000 people in a land area of 5,991,345 square kilometers, for an average density of 46 people per square kilometer, a little more than half of the world's average.
       The average total fertility rates (TFRs) of the nations of the Middle East have dropped from 6.77 children per woman in 1965 to 2.69 in 2007, a total decline of 60 percent.
       The highest 2007 TFR in the Middle East is Yemen's 5.40 children per woman. Five Middle Eastern nations are below replacement fertility: Iran at 1.79, Lebanon at 1.96, Bahrain and Kuwait at 2.01, and Turkey at 2.06.
       The largest drop in TFRs among Middle Eastern nations during the period 1965-2007 were Iran at 74%, Kuwait at 73%, and Bahrain at 72%.
       The most populous countries in the Middle East are Turkey with 77,308,000 people and Iran with 73,422,000 people.
       The only Middle Eastern countries that have abortion on demand laws are Turkey and Israel, while Saudi Arabia and Jordan have exceptions.

       The Status of Abortion Legislation in Africa. As of July 1, 2007, the 56 nations of Africa have a total population of 972,761,000 people in a land area of 29,803,673 square kilometers, for an average density of 33 people per square kilometer, about half of the world's average.
       The average total fertility rates (TFRs) of the nations of Africa have dropped from 6.87 children per woman in 1965 to 4.42 in 2007, a total decline of 36 percent, the lowest of any continent.
       This means Africa has by far the highest TFR of any region of the world, more than double that of Asia. This is why Africa is becoming the number one target of the 'developed' countries' population control efforts.
       The highest 2007 TFR in the world is Niger's 6.94 children per woman. The only African nations below replacement fertility are Tunisia at 1.68 and Mauritius at 1.61 children per completed family.
       One African nation — The Democratic Republic of the Congo — actually increased its TFR from 6.20 to 6.45 during the period 1965-2007.
       The largest drop in TFR among African nations during the period 1965-2007 was Tunisia at 77 percent, the fifth most severe decline in the world.
       The most populous countries in Africa are Nigeria with 149,232,000 people (eighth in the world), followed by Ethiopia with 84 million and Egypt with 76 million.
       The only African countries that have abortion on demand laws are Cape Verde, Tunisia, South Africa and Zambia. In many nations such as Guinea-Bissau, the law states that abortion is only allowed to save the life of the mother. However, the law is not enforced and abortion is largely tolerated. The same law exists in Mozambique, but 'official interpretation' allows abortion on all grounds.

       The South African Situation. The strong-arm tactics of the African National Congress/South African Communist Party (ANC/SACP) were blatant even by pro-abortion standards when the South African parliament passed its Termination of Pregnancy Bill in 1996, giving South Africa the dubious distinction of having the worst abortion law on earth.