Most Extreme Cases of Human Depopulation in History

What are the most extreme cases of human depopulation for a given region in history? Although it has long been thought by sociologists that the human population of the planet is in dire straits of growing exponentially to the point of mass overpopulation, demographic analysis has proven this beyond a shadow of a doubt to be false. Although many areas are still growing, other nations and regions have a depopulation crisis currently brewing and only expected to get worse in the future.
Today, we will be looking at some cases of historic and future depopulation, wherein humans either stop having children, or participate in mass migration to a foreign land (either willingly or unwillingly). This video is not meant to offend anyone from any given country but simply to discuss the reality of the situation for many regions in the past, present and future. Thanks for watching!
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[@cactuslietuva]

Im Lithuanian, the funny thing that even with the emigration, suicide, low birth rates our housing prices are still increasing.

[@kaliskarma]

Laba diena

[@cactuslietuva]

@@kaliskarma Sveikas

[@cactuslietuva]

@Miro Semberac Yeah, you can basically drive threw abandoned villages not meeting anyone. Kinda sad sight

[@venomlink2033]

Less tax payers means no one to prop up the government leading to higher taxes and cost of goods.

[@kavamalekava6556]

Left Lithuania 10 years ago. still havent heard any positive news about it.

[@LukeBunyip]

I'm not sure if it's still true, but during the 20th Century, the third largest Greek urban population was in Melbourne, Australia.

[@TheGentry000]

Yeah in my state too. The irony is that greeks hate immigrants yet they are among the highest imigrants

[@EASportsEets]

@@TheGentry000 yes and they are the first colonizers as well lol

[@tombkings6279]

@@TheGentry000 Greeks are just very Nationalistic.

[@conk6379]

@@TheGentry000 depends the kind of immigrants

[@TheGentry000]

@@EASportsEets bruh... not even close

[@user-ho5ef8gm9i]

Bulgaria's case is described as "the worst demographics crisis in the world" by UN

[@mr.p215]

Ye, being the most corrupt country in the EU, does that to you.

[@vaniog29]

@@mr.p215 well tbh corruption is only part of the problem , because even if we eliminated corruption , which is impossible anywhere in the world. In terms of local migration , villages being abandoned , people moving to the city , those areas are historically screwed... after communists destroyed agriculture , a lot of people were forced to move to the city, which broke a very important link , even when these people got their land back they don't know what to do with it and just rent it , which doesn't provide life to said village, where in places like italy there's generations upon generations working on a farm lets say , and they're perfectly happy doing so. That's not possible in Bulgaria. Everyone has it in their dna that they have to move to a bigger city . And as for educated people leaving , a huge fault is at universities. It's far too easy to get into a university and it's far too easy to graduate, the market is absolutely oversaturated with certain types of professions.... so much that for some professions it's absolutely guaranteed you won't be able to find work.

[@seppuku6230]

@@vaniog29 how do i move to bulgaria

[@mirkomatic9907]

@@vaniog29 Dok su komunisti vladali Bugarskom, broj ljudi je bio u porastu. Nakon što su komunisti prestali vladati, broj ljudi u Bugarskoj stalno opada. I drugdje gdje su komunisti prestali vladati, broj ljudi opada. Zašto lažete?

[@vaniog29]

@@mirkomatic9907 its the facts , don't comment when you know nothing on the matter , or when you're trying to deceive, comrade

[@ironcurtainboxing]

Moldova 🇲🇩 is the biggest depopulating country today!

[@perkele4176]

Ive read that its population declined from 4,5 mil when still part of Soviet to 2,8 mil now

[@ironcurtainboxing]

@@perkele4176 correct...it is around 2.8 - 2.9 million today.

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

@@perkele4176 When was it 4,8 millions? You must've included Ukrainian part of Bessarabia and Bukovina or prednistrovie ssr that was later reformed into Moldova after soviets took Bessarabia, but it also was stripped of most land it controlled before annexation

[@doomi4055]

Soon China becomes largest country with declining population in the world

[@gabrielmarian698]

Romania is by far.

[@ivanreimer3345]

The "triple allianz war" (Paraguay vs Brazil, Argerntina and Uruguay) in 1864 made Paraguay lose 50% of it's population. After that war, the women to men ratio was 5 to 1. The paraguayan women had to rebuild the country.

[@FelipeJaquez]

Polygamy was mandatory

[@samlosco8441]

The surviving Paraguayan men had a good time lol

[@rusitoexplorador]

@@samlosco8441 not really when they killed all their children and friends

[@Shineynsparkles]

@@rusitoexplorador please explain

[@franciscor390]

So you're claiming that the leftover women literally rebuilt the country? Press D for doubt.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

My country, Ukraine, 20 years ago had 52 million, today 42 million people. So no overpopulation is there.

[@Riel_Rami]

That's sad. With that kind of population, Ukraine could have had a population similar to France's or the UK's population with growth. Ukraine could have been a potential power if it played its cards right. Unfortunately not 😔

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

@@Riel_Rami indeed. 80 million could be easily achieved.

[@cantoprak7428]

In 1950 while ukraine's population was 37 million turkey's population was 20 million and now turkey is 84-85 million while ukraine is only 42 million. It is said that a country like Ukraine is dying while others with less potential are being overpopulated.

[@miguelmejia4656]

@@cantoprak7428 why is ukraine dying

[@BillGreenAZ]

Many Jews moved out of Ukraine and move to the US and western Europe.

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

Are u fine man? You haven't posted anything in 6 months, we miss you

[@AP-ym1lo]

I hope Mason is ok. I hope his finishes his legacy work at least. I don't want to imagine that in four years, channels will be talking of him as achieving one of the most ambitious ethnic maps online, with goals of achieving an even more detailed and advanced ethnic map than the one before, but in the middle of it, he vanished.

[@silverbackscopesgeog]

Sad days. Hope he returns 🙏

[@dajjukunrama5695]

It’s starting to look ominous in many ways

[@silverbackscopesgeog]

@@dajjukunrama5695 how so!?

[@AP-ym1lo]

@@silverbackscopesgeog Different rumors going around, like that he died in a car crash months ago, or that he is in rehab. None of them ever showing proof.

[@silverbackscopesgeog]

@@AP-ym1lo that would be awful. Hopefully he's just taking some "me-time"

[@tisho91]

Hi Masan, Bulgarian here. Saw my country in the thumbnail and since I love your channel, I thought that this is a must-watch content and indeed it is. I can't really say whether mass depopulation worldwide is a good thing or a bad thing (yet) although I find it worrying. My country suffers from depopulation greatly. And that has reflected economically too - not enough workforce to stay and contribute. So much so that there are certain areas where there just aren't enough hospitals to take care of the few remaining elderly people in some cities and towns. It has become unattractive for many young people because of the lack of well paid job opportunities that have remained in some places. I used to live in Slovakia for 2 years, tried to adapt but had some difficulties. Loved my time there in a way, but luckily, there was a better job offer in Bulgaria and I had decided to go back in my own country. Best decision ever! After several months of having to re-adapt, I actually stopped considering migrating ever again. Think it's more important to preserve my own language, identity and well, it's easier to make a good, humble living without someone treating you like a cheap labour price tag which is something I came to realize while working abroad.

[@arnieg8800]

This is absolutely true, I am the native of one of the countries mentioned and it saddens me to see my country undergo such insane demographic downturn.

[@VojvodaSloboda]

I feel very much where you are coming from. My parents immigrated to Canada because of Kosovo war and it pains me that we cannot go back. I am currently working so that I can live in Serbia again. I cannot bare to think of what my ancestors suffered for this land just for our own people to forsake it and leave. I wish you all the best in your journey.

[@arnieg8800]

@@VojvodaSloboda I think that multiculturalism is making many people sick and most want to live amongst their own people.

[@kinnish5267]

@@arnieg8800 100% agree with this. There is a book called "Bowling Alone" about how people feel alienated and lonely in diverse societies .

[@kinnish5267]

Smart decision as it is important being in a place where you feel at home

[@desanipt]

Speaking of the Irish and British: "They speak the same language, right?" Me: Yes, because the British conquest made the Irish language (a celtic language) go almost completely extinct being replaced by English (a Germanic language)

[@logancoolgamer-zn7yu]

psssh stop being so divisive, it's all Indo european baby! besides, that's what Indo europeans do! assimilate other IE populations, this can even be seen in the conquest of ireland from the mainland celts and so on.

[@desanipt]

@@logancoolgamer-zn7yu Aight, so, if I understand well, you're telling me it's ok to almost interily erase the language of a people, one of the most defining features of a given culture, as long as its replacement is in the same super-family of languages and there's a precedent.

[@kuroazrem5376]

English isn't even fully Germanic. It is, at best, a Latin-Germanic creole.

[@kathywolf4558]

Can add other Celtic languages too such as Gaelic of the Scots etc...

[@vorynrosethorn903]

It's even more mixed than that, the Norman (Norman being a distinct French dialect) influence was far more pronounced back when people pronounced the loan words in a way vaguely similar to how they were meant to be spoken, the British also took words from basically everyone they ever came into contact with so there are Hindi, Celtic, Arabic and many many other words mixed in with little rhyme, reason or uniformity beyond being horrifically mispronounced. Nordic languages also had a big impact as did Greek (mostly only dating back to the romanization of the language in from the Georgian period onwards).

[@Jason-ms8bv]

In Industrialized countries it's just too expensive for most people to have more than two children, add to that the fact that both parents will need to work and time becomes a factor also, recent reports I have seen showed young Chinese (who are being encouraged by the state to have more kids), citing the above reasons for not having more, or maybe any children. Great work as always Masaman!

[@heluphicclovanass8954]

Although, I think there is some truth to your statement, one might argue that poorer regions have much higher fertility rates; look at Bangladesh and Kenya. It almost seems as if the number of newborn children is antipropotional to their affordability.

[@oliverstrahle]

@@heluphicclovanass8954 In a poorer (and particularly an agarian) society, children are an economic benefit rather than a cost

[@gracefulcubix4730]

@@oliverstrahle right. More kids means more helping hands in their families farm or other inherited occupation.

[@chraman169]

@@heluphicclovanass8954 Bangladesh's fertility rate is 1.8 children per woman. Westernes have it too good to care about children. It's too much work with no 'payoff' for them.

[@heluphicclovanass8954]

@@chraman169 I have to apologise for my statement about Bangladesh. The data in my head seems to be quite outdated

[@silverbackscopesgeog]

Hope you're alright Mason! You're too much of a gem to lose in this community. 🙏

[@tarasdubenskyy508]

Many Ukrainians are moving to Poland since 2014-15

[@efrencruz4422]

You should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian on KZbin channel and watch all the videos on KZbin taras 😀😀😀

[@radekpalme7537]

Since 2014 8-9 milions Ukranians emigrated to Russia. Not counting Russians living in Crimea.

[@Tobi-ln9xr]

And many Poles moved/are moving to Germany

[@tarasdubenskyy508]

@@radekpalme7537 well, I was not counting all of them 😀, but I think it's safe to admit that some probably did. As to Poles moving to Germany and London - I'd say yes, I heard about it too.

[@efrencruz4422]

@@Tobi-ln9xr you should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian on KZbin channel and watch all the videos on KZbin tobi 😀😀😀

[@rkitchen1967]

The predictions of population increase and mass starvation in Paul Erlich's book "The Population Bomb" did not occur as Erlich did not consider the dramatic fall in population growth that occurs with increases in education levels. Agricultural productivity has also greatly increased in a manner that he didn't predict as technical developments have increased productivity.

[@attysthoughts3253]

Productivity has increase but at the expense of a decline in quality. Soil degradation and force-feeding caged up animals with industrial feed isn't exactly the same as when small scale farmers produced their own food. Technical developments only kicked the can down the road it didn't solve the problem. The fact is, we live on a finite planet and unless Elon Musk finds other habitable planets in the next few decades, we have to manage our population. Which looks like we're already doing, albeit indirectly

[@jamesricker3997]

Increased agricultural productivity is just delaying the problem

[@pawelpap9]

@@jamesricker3997 Which problem? The human population decreasing in the next 50 years?

[@rkitchen1967]

@@jamesricker3997 I wouldn't say that because technology is always improving. The growth rates assumed by Erlich assumed a static productivity rate. He was also wrong about growth rates, so the problem doesn't really exist as he defined it.

[@rkitchen1967]

@@attysthoughts3253 The population growth problem has never existed as Erlich projected. The proportion of arable land needed to feed more people has actually fallen. The best population growth control method is to increase education and income levels, as China has experienced. Their One Child program cut population growth so dramatically that there is a shortage of young people of working age required to support the aging population. A shortage of women also exists as so many female babies were aborted by families wanting a male as their one child. So the population alarmists were not only wrong with their projections, but their solutions have proven problematic.

[@eukarya_]

In Spain there has been a huge depopulation of the rural regions to the point where some towns have less than 10 people living and are giving abandoned houses for dirt cheap to anyone who wants to live there. Some towns have already turn to ghost towns.

[@scintillam_dei]

Pobre España envenenada por el liberalismo que la arruinó.

[@sr3821]

What about urban areas?

[@eukarya_]

@@scintillam_dei¿A qué liberalismo te refieres?

[@eukarya_]

@@sr3821 They're still growing, at the expense of the rural regions and thanks to immigration. Natural growing though is very slow in Spain, of about 0.6%.

[@donm2067]

As a Canadian who is forced to buy a million dollar home...tell me more. I've been considering Mexico, but Spanish is Spanish to me

[@donovan5656]

I once met a Korean Kazakh in the Czech Republic who told me that story of the relocation. I had no clue before then.

[@DOMINIK99013]

You're Czech? Do you know what the Korean was doing here?

[@sizarii]

@@DOMINIK99013 all of them for education. If it's kazakh(no matter all ussr contries kazakh-korean) moving in Europe to educate.

[@MrAsianPie]

Population shifts for me are so hard to mentally comprehend at once. In my area the population has been swelling immensely. The forest and farms in the region have been going down in swaths to make way for urban expansion. While some of my extended family up north have been seeing the opposite. Large chunk of abandoned urban sprawl is being demolished by the state to give way to nature’s reclamation. It’s just hard to wrap my head around at two opposite trends happening at once.

[@funghi2606]

Where are you from?

[@MrAsianPie]

@@funghi2606 The Old Dominion

[@L0stEngineer]

The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.

[@digitalgame659]

@@MrAsianPie its Virginia why u stated it as old dominion?

[@crafe2305]

Just called urbanization. More jobs = more people. More people = more jobs. This trend is self fulfilling and the vice versa is true with less people = less jobs, and thus less jobs = less people.

[@Neversa]

I live in a region that lost 40% of its population between 1990 and 2020 because of mass emigration and low birth rates and this is terrible. Have more children, or we'll both share memories of wandering around abandoned houses.

[@luddity]

Where I live, West coast Canada, housing is becoming Unobtainium. All the land is owned by off-shore companies, and even though our population density is comparatively low, much like Australia, home ownership is now a distant dream, and Vanlife is the new normal. If we get to 9 billion, cannibalism may come back in a big way. Soylent Green is people.

[@jackorlove4055]

@@luddity and our country wants 100 million immigrants lol.

[@paladinhansen137]

@@jackorlove4055 Your country is run by China and India. Its quite evident in the migration patterns to Canada to see the bankers are in lock step with foreigners to get them in to the West.

[@jackorlove4055]

@@paladinhansen137 pretty much, this country is screwed

[@MrCrunch808]

@@luddity There is more than enough food produced each year to feed 9 billion people. Its just that profit gets in the way of harvesting crops and stores purposely throw away tons of food everyday to increase demand for food, instead of giving that food to food banks. The only reason we don't live in post scarcity is because the rich decided that 90% of people should suffer for their amusement, profit, and power.

[@lonelyhetaliafangirl4936]

As a Bulgarian, I got so scared when I saw Bulgaria in the thumbnail

[@Foreign0817]

*Biggest mass depopulation I witnessed was when we stuck the water hose inside the ant hill.*

[@lemmeuseyourecvmassunscree9389]

🌊🐜

[@grundgesetzart.1463]

@@lemmeuseyourecvmassunscree9389 lol

[@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051]

@@lemmeuseyourecvmassunscree9389 your Name is kinda inticing

[@lemmeuseyourecvmassunscree9389]

@@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051 and you’re name is intriguing but kinda true

[@user-ue5gy8wn1n]

Depopulation in Bulgaria is because of your American "democracy"! 1989-9miliona now we are 6.9

[@DevSarman]

Don't forget the An Lushan Rebellion in 8th century which brought the decline of Tang Dynasty, which killed around 5 to 15 percent of world population at that time (with nominal death toll at 36 million at highest estimate), just let that sink in

[@appa609]

I think those estimates are based on censuses. Which is not great since censuses aren't necessarily complete during periods of political turmoil and territorial change.

[@starmaker75]

@@appa609 also it seems to be that most of casualties where from famine that was cause by the battles of the rebellion I.e destroying irrigation, trade routes and farmlands

[@MrBoliao98]

You estimate that, and you're not even Chinese, you don't get it.

[@abdallahahmed825]

@@MrBoliao98 You don't need to be Chinese to predict something that happened in the 8th century and stop acting like Chinese get it this was almost 3,000 years ago

[@niubi3923]

@@abdallahahmed825 more like a bit more than 1000 years*

[@cobsg938]

Hey Masaman, love your videos honestly have learnt so much from your videos! Im from Australia and sadly I can't find many videos about our Aboriginal people's nations and languages previous to colonisation. Often we hear about Australian Aboriginal people being one but in reality they're were over 300 languages and so many different cultures that I'd love to know the differences between them. Thanks again your an absolute legend in the KZbin scene.

[@narekmargaryan4429]

What on Earth happened to Massaman?

[@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup]

75% of Paraguayan men died in the triple alliance war.

[@ryukwalker6233]

The other 25%: harem isekai time 😎

[@LetterSignedBy51SpiesWasA-Coup]

@@ryukwalker6233 it’s what the dead would have wanted for Paraguay.

[@lordunhold5381]

Even worse was the 30 years war on germany

[@totaldramaisland1173]

But didn’t europeans immigration to Paraguay afterwards sort of replace the population drop?

[@lordunhold5381]

@@totaldramaisland1173 it mostly grew back on its one ... that was a time when everybody hat like 8+ childrin

[@pmoviglialeibovich]

"Irish diaspora.... even in Latinamerica" - Argentina has the fifth largest irish diaspora in the world, by far the largest in the non english speaking world!

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Chile achieved independence under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins!

[@pmoviglialeibovich]

@@Blaqjaqshellaq yep, and William (Guillermo) Brown, an irishman, was the father of the argentine navy, he fought in the independence wars, and to this day we have whole towns named after him!

[@pmoviglialeibovich]

@@Blaqjaqshellaq and, if you can recall, O'Higgins was born in Chile. Although his actions were crucial for the independence of Chile, he fought under the general San Martín!

[@samrosendahl392]

Argentina is fascinating to me. I love places in southern most portion of the planet and the northern most.

[@mechhyena6957]

your content is fire. love how the production quality has improved over the years. (especially the audio! watched a 2017 video where there was an echo in the background; and voice is not as clear.)

[@slimbroski5335]

UPDATE: for anyone concerned or worried he’s not dead people. Check his latest community tab posted about a month ago.

[@radovanwolf593]

Man I sure wish you would do the audio-mixing a little bit louder

[@octaviacoquus8857]

Agree. You have a great voice for education. The back of the class can't hear tho lol.

[@nickgavras2852]

Agreed Great content but a little louder would be awesome!

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

Yeah and a bit clearer

[@AsatorIV]

I had no problems with this, since I'm using really good headphones (no flex intended). But I could hear quite a lot of background noise - tapping sounds on a table, pages rustling etc.

[@sjbock]

Watching on my smart phone and I can barely hear this with the sound turned all the way up.

[@Daffodildepp]

Love ur vids Masa It’s good that u are uploading more

[@quincybirwood2629]

As always, fascinating content and great presentation.

[@jessflex1741]

Hey man, you okay? Just checking since you haven't posted in a while.

[@carloscamejo391]

Venezuela too has lost several million people because of economic collapse.

[@Redeemedpooper]

Socialism*

[@NeblogaiLT]

@@Redeemedpooper That's just another way to say it.

[@bob7975]

@@Redeemedpooper More like the collapse in oil prices. It is a petroleum-producing nation with no alternate exports of any significance. I doubt that any government could stay afloat under these circumstances. The only suggestion the opposition has is to let foreign companies have full sway, which is a big part of what caused the revolution in the first place. Fulgencio Batista made Castro the leader of Cuba, and no one else. History is no more impressed with free-market corruption and fecklessness than any other kind.

[@totaldramaisland1173]

@@bob7975 wait what do you mean Batista made Castro the leader of Cuba?

[@user-xn8od6qw5k]

@@bob7975 more like USA sanctions.

[@britishaviator5942]

Oh god, Rip Korea and Japan. Them fertility rates gonna mess um up

[@andrei19238]

@Gentleman Thug they will go extinct before that korea has a birth rate of 0.85

[@minggus9649]

@@andrei19238 korea is fine. They already have huge population of over 50 million.

[@shorewall]

I don't see the problem. Many Japanese and Koreans have moved to the West, and continue to flourish. Intermarriage is also a thing. And cultural influence. Japan is high on the list of Global Cultural Influence. Modern British, for example, are made of Bretons, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Norse, Normans, Mixture of Irish, Scottish, Welsh during their unions. And in the modern age, people intermarry whoever they will. And that's just for genetics, not cultural influence. Culture is important. So is genetics and ancestry. But a nation has neither. Only a people have those. A nation is shaped by the people that lives there, however.

[@britishaviator5942]

@@shorewall that’s a good assessment

[@andrei19238]

@@minggus9649 and it will halve every generation they will collapse

[@basedsapien467]

mason mate i hope ur ok

[@Raiche58]

Dear Masaman, I hope you are well. Have a great holiday season.

[@micha2909]

Germany lost about ⅔ of it's population during the Black Death 1349-52. More than 50% of all villages were abandoned during these years an never settled again. Sometimes you can find traces of their ruins somewhere in the forest or fields. 300 years later, Germany lost about half its population in the Thirty Years War 1618-48, with most of the rest uprooted or expelled from their villages.

[@Blackrew]

Depressing to see many historical countries like in Europe and Asia disappearing like that in terms of their populations.

[@mehwhatever9726]

While native population is indeed disappearing, the overall world population is higher than in the past centuries, there is a lot of room for speculation on any side. Especially since non democradic goverments like China and Russia provide false data on their population. 20th-18th century's europe population was obviously lower than modern for example, because of obvious wars and the lack of immigrants. Now you could say it's higher than it's ever been, so even if it drops a little there isn't much of an issue. However if we take specific countries that lose population due to more extreme circumstances, like Ukraine, because it has territories occupied by Russia and also in a state of war with it, that is something to worry about for real. A democratic country losting population due to the war with a dictatorship regime (That mimics itself as a democracy) should be an emergency call for all civilized world.

[@lunaflamed]

@@mehwhatever9726 it isn't the totalnumber of people in any given area that matters,but the genetic and culture makeup. Humans and the various cultures are NOT interchangeable. The extinction of even one is a loss to all.

[@mehwhatever9726]

@@lunaflamed That's some nazi level bullship right there, any population is the same, except it takes a period of time to adapt to the new culture rules. That's how every culture was formed to begin with, it was never monolite. How many ethnics and cultures were fused together to create english for example? Celts, romans, anglo-saxons, norse, it's always a cocktail! If people want to adapt and given adequate measures to do so, they will. Of course there will be issues with some groups/individuals, but that's why immigrants should be selected more carefully and introduced to foreign cultural values first and foremost. Excessive immigration politics make it harder to manage and result in more conflicts, but on the other hand it was always like that, in the good old times, when ethnic conflicts were far more exterime. It will take a century or two for everyone to adapt. That is if you look at it patiently. In a world where people can travel wherever they want the cultural borders are less and less relevant, of course it doesn't mean natives should be force-accumulated, every culture is equally valuable (Unless it's agressive on other cultures). This process is natural and inevitable, it simply means a new culture is forming, though there is always a room for improving it.

[@iplaygames896]

@@mehwhatever9726 i was about to say

[@gonkong5638]

@@mehwhatever9726 every culture is equally valuable (Unless it's agressive on other cultures). Ya know people scare shit like 200 woman assaulted in Eve New year Germany.

[@verit3839]

Thinking about my country's demographic situation (Latvia) always gives me an existential crisis.

[@millevenon5853]

Won't Russians take over once you guys disappear?

[@updownrightleft7686]

​​@Иван Петрович yeah, you are right, every latvian woman should have at least 4 childrens. But then you realise that nobody's want to have a baby because it's waste of time, energy and money. And also you realise, new generations are lazy enough to don't have kids.

[@regulusmuphrid4891]

Mongols: Unite The world population📉 📉

[@thekhans2823]

No, no no,

[@thekhans2823]

@@kathywolf4558 , you believe those lies

[@ghostshooter6242]

@CIA but the greatest ever imagine forging a biggest empire ever the world ever seen from a just a single tribe within short period of time

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

Cringe take a look at the tinurids

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@yoghurtmaster1688 mongol empire killed atleast 300 million (black death included).

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Thanks for the posting this.

[@danielyruby8696]

Only 2 cities have lost a million people in world history, ancient Rome and Detroit.

[@micha2909]

Merv, Gurganj, Nishapur and Baghdad were among the world's largest city, at least Merv & Baghdad had >1m population, when the Mongols razed these cities and killed of their entire population in the 13th century. Also, Alexandria was about 1 million in 100 BC but less than 10,000 in 1800.

[@achilleuspetreas3828]

Being originally in the Detroit area, Detroit always reminded me of fallen Rome or Gotham...sad shit

[@Thesebji]

What happened in Detroit?

[@danielyruby8696]

@@Thesebji Detroit was the classic boom town. Population explosion in the early 1900s and population evacuation after 1955. Once manufacturing began to leave the city, no other industry came to replace it

[@micha2909]

@@Thesebji Detroit was the industrial capital of America. Then, most factories closed down and workers lost their jobs. Lots of people left the city to find jobs elsewhere.

[@heehokuzunoha7757]

I like these historical demographic videos that aren't necessarily focused on ethnography but instead the population history of one group of people. The usual ethnography videos are great too!

[@assassinskillz123]

Your videos are so good, deserve more views

[@varvaramihailova3233]

Thanks for your hard work!

[@CrimeanTatarBoy]

Thank you for sharing about the Crimean Tatar genocide. It is very important that the world knows about this. My great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers were killed by Russian Soviet soldiers in the act of terror, if they had not already been shot by Bolsheviks or Nazis. It was not just a deportation, Masaman, it was a planned depopulation/ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars (Crimean Russians were not removed) and had been occurring much before May 18th, 1944. Look into the genocide of Desht-i-Kipchak peoples, ongoing since the 1500s. It's important to spread awareness.

[@shahnawaznasir6681]

Are Crimean Tatars safe now?

[@oracle8192]

@@shahnawaznasir6681 not really, we still face lots of tension with Putin

[@oracle8192]

Well, I say "we" but I'm actually uralic tatar, not Crimean

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

😭😭😭

[@shahnawaznasir6681]

@@oracle8192 I have even heard of Polish Tatars?

[@MolpPlom]

*Masaman* ... *The man that unites and splits the youtube comment section*

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

Race is interesting but a sensitive subject

[@MolpPlom]

@@RedVelvetBlackleather Was arr yoo zaying my frend?

[@efrencruz4422]

@@MolpPlom you should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian on KZbin channel and watch all the videos on KZbin molpplom 😀😀😀

[@MolpPlom]

@@efrencruz4422 Do i look like a gay muslim?

[@efrencruz4422]

@@MolpPlom no but check out the channels give it a chance bro trust me you are going to like it mlopplom 😀😀😀

[@PolecanePC]

Small note: Before covid pandemic there was about 1.2 - 1.5 mln Ukrainians here working/living in Poland.

[@louisdewit4429]

And 1.5 Polaks living in western Europe.

[@louisdewit4429]

@Novgorod Veliky 862 - Ok mr. Grand.

[@riograndedosulball248]

A lot of Lithuanians and Ukrainians living in Poland? That's the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth all over again

[@lonelyhetaliafangirl4936]

@@riograndedosulball248 YES

[@fdumbass]

Would love to see a video on pre-industrialization human depopulation, especially the Mongols in central Asia. I know there's a lot of debate surrounding the destruction they caused, with entire cities like Samarkand being systematically wiped out.

[@ReconPro]

Greatest case of depopulation are the firends in my life! 🤣

[@abbad707]

😂😂😂

[@BirdEgg123]

:C

[@alex-sv8ru]

Take care, mate.

[@salvadorhenriquez4091]

@@klmsps5576 it's happening yo me already

[@scintillam_dei]

I have 400 or so CIAbook friends, and not one of them is a true friend only random people or acquaintances. Most people are fake.

[@deteon1418]

This is really sad. Good video.

[@sergeant_chris6209]

Mason is on the spectrum, he doesn't experience emotions

[@1vaultdweller]

Its not. Overpopulation would destroy our civilization. We need depopulation

[@thewalkofthewest4466]

Where I live every natural landscape or empty area is getting demolished for endless rows of housing leaving nothing but a mass urban sprawl. It’s good to hear that populations aren’t growing as fast anymore, the world shouldn’t be concreted over

[@deteon1418]

@@1vaultdweller I agree, however the sad part is that some countries are losing such an enormous part of their population. All humans can easily survive at the current amount of people as long as we distribute resources properly.

[@deteon1418]

@@thewalkofthewest4466 I agree.

[@edm8037]

You are excellent sharing us this info.

[@SynapticTransmission]

VERY timely.

[@Amesang]

The eruption of Mount Toba comes to mind…

[@r.anthony8685]

1.000 views in just 17 minutes... Good job, Masaman

[@kimotheking95]

Great Video!!! 👍🏼

[@dimtim7829]

Maasam, you videos are top notch, plase continue :)

[@krumbleme2]

Pay him

[@hbar895348]

it was not the Circassians who were exiled during the Stalin era, but rather the Karachay and Balkarian people, who live close to the Circassians but are entirely different people

[@someguysomeone3543]

Also the chechens

[@dawnandy7777]

Absolutely love your last name!

[@hbar895348]

@@someguysomeone3543 he mentioned Chenchens. But he didn't mention Ingush - they were also deported :(

[@MishaElRusito]

I think he meant to say "tartars" who were kicked out of Crimea to Asia. My mom is tartarian. Her grandparents were sent to Kazakstan

[@tysm.]

@@dawnandy7777 yeah he is a true polska 🇵🇱 almost impossible to pronounce xD

[@rustyshackelford3590]

What about depopulation as caused by pandemics? Like the Black Death?

[@dukekenny9340]

You mean hat people

[@SixtiesStick]

DukeKenny93 Oy Vey!

[@miguelmejia4656]

he's not gonna cover that

[@efrencruz4422]

@@miguelmejia4656 you should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian on KZbin channel and watch all the videos on KZbin miguel 😀😀😀

[@dukekenny9340]

@sçurg but then one day though

[@ArimaSenne1]

really good video, but if you read this comment then you should consider raising the audio level a little bit because its lower than other videos for people with quiet speakers

[@MarblePerception]

Someone in the comments said Masaman died I hope this is not true. Can Mason or one of his mods at least tell us he's alive and well? I love your content bro. I'm wishing you all the best!

[@23eourytbn82]

Man, I hope that's not true. What else did the comment you saw say? Any other info, or did they just claim that he died.

[@AP-ym1lo]

@@23eourytbn82 Just claimed with no proof.

[@smiterofbarbarians4711]

Atlantic Canada, and some New England states, already have fewer people and more trees than 100 years ago because of the economy.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Sometimes, out-migration becomes compulsory in a country under conditions that negatively affect society. There is a massive displacement of society. Let's list them in items: It is reasonable to relocate in case of war, Inadequate financial situations due to economic losses, Some countries accept people to their country in terms of cultural exchange, Natural disasters, religious, political, sociological and cultural reasons, Inadequate environment, peace, balance and opportunities in the country occur in such situations.

[@luddity]

@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr Most Palestinians were forced to flee and still cannot return. Now stateless.

[@user-wx2wx9fl4i]

@rimacutem of Alsvartrsmiðr Yes by the Zionist groups who were upholding terrorism and blowing up the synagogues of Baghdad and accusing the Iraqis of it, forcing them to flee to Israel.

[@dennismayfield8846]

Excellent! Thoughtful! Eclectically-interesting! Masaman.

[@kaiserschmarrn260]

Great video was very interesting and also quite sad I wonder what will happen to all the empty houses

[@arsyapermana1]

Yo, what's going on with him? His subreddit also can't accessed

[@KenjiStrazdins]

As a Latvian: yay, someone mentioned us!

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Nav iemesla teikt urrāāā, kad tiekam pieminēti runā par sliktām lietām.

[@LoveScreamTrue]

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 r/Woosh

[@paulbangert6005]

I'm one of the few that has actually moved *to* Latvia :D

[@LoveScreamTrue]

@@paulbangert6005 Where from?

[@paulbangert6005]

@@LoveScreamTrue From Germany, living in Liepaja now but constantly moving between Riga and Liepaja

[@davidhibbs4737]

Hope you come back. Love your videos.

[@dinil5566]

I love your videos. It would be awesome if the volume can be a bit louder masaman.

[@Simi822]

MASA, you made here a BIG mistake in your video!!! the Koreans where not expelled from Sachalin! back then Sachalin was split between USSR and Japan, the Koreans which got deported lived in the Primorsky krai, mostly in Vladivostok...there where mostly refugees who escaped to Russia after in 1910 Japan taken over Korea...and they where not 200k but more like 500k....Stalin was worried as they where suddenly making almost half of the primorsky population and he was worried that Japan would lay claim on the area...so in the 1930ties he deported them to central Asia...and now back to Sachalin, when the Soviets took over the southern half (Karafuto) the population was 500k Japanese and 50-100k Koreans...the Russians kicked the Japanese out but did not allow the Koreans to go home...they where used as labor in the Coal mines....

[@yux.tn.3641]

In terms of global fertility rate, if we exclude Africa's birth rate...I think the global fertility rate is already at 1.9?

[@aidanmurphy7624]

Yeah and I think you need a rate of 2.1 to keep the population growing steadily

[@MatuschkaRossija]

@@aidanmurphy7624 And why do you want population grows? More people need more resources and we dont have them!

[@aidanmurphy7624]

@@MatuschkaRossija I never said I want the population to grow. I’m thrilled that the population will cap at around 9 billion

[@richardwilson5330]

What is it INCLUDING Africa? If your gonna post facts make them clear. Why don't justp exclude China and India also ffs

[@yux.tn.3641]

@@richardwilson5330 because china has very low birth rate and india’s fertility rate is 2.1, go watch some news ffs

[@wisdomleader85]

Haven't seen any new video for a while so I hope you're doing alright. I wonder if you plan to make an anthropological video about vandals who seemingly disappeared in history.

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Paraguay losing 50% of its population be like:in terms of people,we dont have people

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

@gatherington your facts are as true as a picture of Dom Pedro 2° playing a song with the Beatles in the Maracanã

[@nicholasrodriguez4990]

@gatherington what?? Lmao 😂

[@NP1066]

What's happened to his reddit sub r/masastan? Is it just ne? Or is it not accessible?

[@bharatsarvaparihindutva6497]

Howdy Mason please make videos again

[@Thanksforthefish]

Just have to correct you on one: Yugoslavia was not an Eastern block country. It was a non-aligned country.

[@viesturs6321]

It was tho they were comunist too

[@Thanksforthefish]

@@viesturs6321 not all comminist countries were part of the Eastern Block. Yugoslavia founded the non-aligned movement of those who were neither aligned towards the west nor to the East. Tito didn't want to cooperate with Stalin, which saved the country from economic disaster. Yugoslavia was the only socialist country that was allowed to send guest workers to Germany and trade with the US.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Albania was another non-Warsaw Pact communist regime.

[@zsoltpapp3363]

It was a fucking dictatorship, so who cares. It was worse than the eastern bloc with its war and hate.

[@nukesploder]

@@Blaqjaqshellaq not quite

[@malikamasimova7631]

Koreans from Sakhalin were never deported, Sakhalin became Soviet with all Koreans after WWII, while Korean deportation happened in 1937. Koreans in Soviet Union are about 800,000 if all mixed origin Koreans counted. Russian Far East at the time was not a very pleasant place to be with almost nothing to eat. Majority were deported to Tashkent, hello, it is rich and plentiful urban area, 5th biggest city in USSR

[@thechosenone1533]

Is overpopulation a problem? Certainly in some areas of the world,yes. (Proceeds to show a picture of my city).

[@thechosenone1533]

@Nick Gurr Mumbai.

[@robertkim5354]

Do you suffer from overpopulation?

[@gracefulcubix4730]

@@robertkim5354 the Indian government pays people to get sterilized.(removing the baby factory basically)

[@JM-nm3bg]

Ha ha!

[@ibnu9969]

@@gracefulcubix4730 I wonder why slowing down birth rate is still a problem in a powerhouse like India. Is it a cultural thing there to have a horde of children?

[@10hawell]

Masaman, please don't be dead, if you're alive, please at least tell us "it's end of our adventure" and let as be at peace, and if you are dead I'll pay my respects to you, rest in peace Mason [*] F o> o/

[@muchobossa]

Looks like he’s back posting but he seems to be busy doing work.

[@10hawell]

@@muchobossa I wrote the comment in the evening and in the morning he showed up, I'm not saying I'm the one to revive him, buuuut xD

[@suetrublu]

Compelling subject. Thanks

[@logicalvichar8930]

Living in India and watching a video about population decline, I wish India's population was reduced to half like the thanos did in the movie. Extremely low and extremely high population are both unsustainable.

[@girishg414]

India will be one of the more sustainable nations with a future

[@melonlord2283]

India's population growth rate has been on a decline since the last decade! Yes many people are still ignorant. Population explosion is no longer a problem now. Many cities have growth have the growth rate either equal to or even lesser than the replacement rate. So it is just a matter of time for this trend to continue.

[@logicalvichar8930]

@@girishg414 with modi in power we are doomed. He has single handedly destroyed Indian economy

[@logicalvichar8930]

@@melonlord2283 have you ever been to india. Due you have any idea how tremendous pressure a population off 1.4 billion exert on natural resources. Rivers turn black due to sewage discharge, you find forested areas only on paper every bit of land is turned to farms. Air pollution is extremely high, in Delhi air most of the year is severly polluted. Ground water table sinks to depths never heard before. High populations have extremely negative impact on nature and environment.

[@melonlord2283]

@@logicalvichar8930 I'm indian and I know everything what you are saying and you're right. What I'm saying is that this immense population pressure that we are seeing right now is because of our grandparents and great grandparents had many kids. Then those kids had kids if their own. But the growth rate is declining. Our population will probably peak some time in the near future and then it will start declining. I was talking about the growth rate and hence future prospects not the current.

[@sepep6288]

What on earth happened to Masaman

[@horactik9838]

Check out his community tab

[@Novusod]

The greatest depopulations in history: 1. Nishapur (April 20th, 1221AD) population 1.7 million reduced to zero in a single day after it was sacked by Genghis Khan (deadliest day in all of human history) 100% loss 2. Königsberg (1939 to 1946) went from 372k pop to around 10k by 1946. Entire population was eventually deported and replaced by Russians. near 100% loss 3. Easter Island (1200s) population declined from 20k to about 200. 99% loss 4. Slow decline of Rome (100s to 500s AD) population peak at 1 million to a low of around 10k. Near 99% loss over 500 years 5. Sack of Tenochtitlan (1521) population decline of 400k to 5k about 98% loss. 6. Mayan Collapse (1300s) population declined from 300k to 30k about 90% loss. 7. Sack of Constantinople (1453AD) population 100k to 20k about 80% loss 8. Bronze age collapse (1300BC to 1100BC) Minoan Greece, Hittite Kingdom, Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Indus River civilization (Mohenjo Daro) all simultaneously collapse losing 70% to 80% of population 9. Black Death in Europe (1347 to 1353) Around 50% of Europe's population dies of plague 10. 30 years War (1622 to 1652) Central Europe loses about 30% of it's population to war and famine

[@boum62]

Very thought provoking.

[@kalinaperez8503]

Bulgaria is a tragedy. Without a war, major natural disaster or famine, we are shrinking in record speed. After the „changes“ of 1989 most people simply chose to emigrate instead of fighting for the country. We are in all „nice“ rankings like for depopulation, bad health, poverty, corruption etc. while being an EU member…Such a pitty as we have an amazing land with amazing history and traditions at a key location. We managed to survive here for thousands of years and now we are just leaving it behind…

[@crossmaster77]

lol that's what happened when you leave communism to chase the capital.

[@1715905950]

I really enjoy your videos and watch them often. I think the other thing to add to the deep population is the decrease in fertility rate which is estimated at dropping about 15% per generation. At that rate it’ll only take two or three generations before it will be difficult to actually conceive children. Currently this is mostly male fertility that is being lost, The cost is not truly understood. Perhaps sometime you can talk about that Thanks for your programs

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Interesting topic like always 👍

[@himalayas1647]

Hi there are you watching Turkey vs Italy today

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@himalayas1647 😐

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

@@papazataklaattiranimam I think he or she is referring to a football game or some crap like that

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 3-0 :(((

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 our team got f ed

[@mooseman1071]

Great video, but the audio volume was way low

[@foolsgold9993]

Just an overall great video.

[@Satmaran998]

Btw masa hows your ethnic map going?

[@Silver_Prussian]

Eastern europeans have to band together to combat this problem, nobody else is going to help us, the EU just wants cheap labour, so in order for us to save our ehtnic populations we have to be bold and we dont have to fear oposition that wants the opposite if we wait and dont do anything nothing is going to change and these arent just words if there isnt anyone who can fix the problems in your country then be the one to fix them

[@dandun3244]

Our governments have betrayed us and sold us out, they don’t care. Most of our politicians are in the pockets of foreign powers and oligarchs or either simply live in their own Plutocrat bubble. What we need is radical action.

[@user-ro9xs2bq5d]

@@dandun3244 It is rightly said that there are the same problems in Ukraine.

[@user-hp1cu9lc3l]

our gouvermets only suck up to european union and western hegemony, we are just vassals of their imperialism, and we dont need to wait for some rotten parlamentary democracy to solve some crucial problems to our countries, its fact that eastern europe didnt get used to democratic system, and cant succes in it, why we allways intend to be what we arent

[@gong1616]

I don't want to be the DOOM guy, but nothing lasts forever.

[@MrOssyMoro]

Why do you care so much about your ethnic stupid nationalists? Just think to live the best of your life, you only belong to yourselves, everything else are stupid fantasies somebody out in your heads.

[@SnarkNSass]

Thanx Masaman✌🏻☮️

[@miken4591]

There has been significant migration from the Pacific Islands countries of Tonga, Samoa, Cooks, etc to New Zealand, Australia, etc, with 50-70% of their population living outside the country.

[@ayinstrumentals7731]

similar thing happened with Amerindians leaving the Reservations as well.

[@RedVelvetBlackleather]

East Europe: allow me to introduce myself

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Lol

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Communism definitely does that.

[@user-dz8pg5sw6s]

@@noahtylerpritchett2682 You mean free markets and liberalism.

[@krokuke]

@@user-dz8pg5sw6s Lmao, strange that before these countries had communism they were doing very good. Poland's population rose from 20 to 40 million for example, but then, came communism, economy crashed population growth stagnated and started declining when your shitty system left us with basically nothing.

[@milanvitu3963]

@@krokuke communism and capitalism both maladaptiv Ideologie ...only traditionalism can beat them

[@matthewmann8969]

Yeah the numbers, numerals, statistics, estimates, estimations, calculations, graphs, charts, and measurements are dwindling and decreasing in so many diasporas

[@NicoxBass]

I enjoy a lot your videos, but even with max volume on my computer I barely hear you, I need to put the headphones on, it has been since that since many videos, I hope you could increase a bit your volume

[@j.s4222]

Is Mason still making content? What's been going on with him these days?

[@camberon2225]

LETS GOOOOOOOO MASA VID

[@Innomenatus]

The king has finally returned!

[@zuklarFTW]

You gotta turn the volume up a little.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

I gave this video a thumbs just because you said I am legend is a good film.

[@imperion8238]

I'm from Bulgaria and it's a pretty big problem. Towns and villages get abandoned all the time and the economy is going down. Also, the Gypsy ethnic group is growing fast and they are about to become the majority of the population in Bulgaria. So yeah, I am about to become a minority in my own nation.

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

In Australia, Chinese are taking over the country. In my city Melbourne, you might see white people every 1/3 people now. Crazy stuff.

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

@Sergio Fernandez Well they are as well. We now have like 700,000 Indians.

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

@Sergio Fernandez I have had friends from both groups, but ever so slightly Indians. Although Indians have such freaking unrealistic values, so do Chinese. The Chinese are not great at driving from what I've observed. We also have Chinese spies in our Uni's, so yeah very fun..

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

@Sergio Fernandez Yep a lot of Muslims here as well. Not as much as European Countries, but we have around 640,000. We also have about 600,000 Buddhists, 200,000 Hindus, 100,000 Jews, 100,000 Sikhs and more. 12,500,000 Christians and 7,100,000 Non-Religious people. Also, our population is 76% White (19,000,000), 17% Asian (4,500,000), Others (2,000,000 including 800,000 Aboriginal Australians). By your name, I would assume you're Spanish or Portuguese. We have like 150,000 Spanish Speakers and 45,000 Portuguese Speakers.

[@alexeibradley-malcolm2462]

@Sergio Fernandez Sometimes there are, a famous example of this would be the 2005 Cronulla Riots. Lebanese and White people were up pretty pissed with each other. We tend to get along with other cultures alright, except for the Sudanese Gang Violence that happens on our cities' outskirts.