Chapter 451 Population (Continued)
The first large-scale immigration from East Africa (excluding mercenaries) was in 1865. Since then, the number of immigrants has increased sharply, and with the increase in East African shipping capacity, the scale has become larger and larger.
That is to say, the first batch of immigrants from East Africa have settled in East Africa for nine years, and the attributes of East African immigrants have caused the current population of East Africa to grow explosively.
This kind of thing can be compared to the German region, where the fertility rate is currently quite high, and East Africa is even higher because East Africa bears the cost of fertility, which is impossible in the German region.
Germany's land resources were divided up among nobles and landlords, and with the development of capitalist agriculture, profit was no longer the top priority, instead of pursuing labor and ownership.
Although the land in East Africa is also privately owned, Ernst's previous focus was on giving East African citizens relatively good treatment. One of the points was that he hoped that East African residents would have more children, as many as they could, and the state would bear most of the childbirth costs.
East African citizens who have no fertility burden will naturally have as many children as they can, especially when they have no concept or means of contraception.
Basically, people are in good health, so the fertility rate will not be low. Combined with the extremely low infant mortality rate (compared to other countries), the population of East Africa will eventually increase exponentially.
At low productivity levels, most of these costs are ultimately borne by the black population, of which nearly 10 million are in the labor force, out of a total of 20 million in East Africa.
Therefore, East Africa is not feeling too much pressure at present, but the speed at which the black population in East Africa is decreasing is also quite fast. If East Africa wants to continue playing this game in the future, this part of the cost can only be passed on to new immigrants.
However, the new immigrants will continue to have children, which will form a vicious cycle. Ernst himself is a believer in the theory of population advantage and has once said that a population the size of India will inevitably become a great power.
If East African immigrants were allowed to reproduce without restraint, a family would only have two laborers, but would have to feed more than a dozen mouths. Even working like slaves would be unrealistic. Of course, this may be a bit too idealistic. A conservative estimate is that there should be seven or eight mouths to feed.
In addition to the birth rate, immigration is also a problem. The current normal immigration level in East Africa is around 250,000 per month, and there are more than 400 ships (including chartered ships and slave ships) serving East African immigrants.
In one year, the number of immigrants from East Africa was almost three million. If it was up to 1880, the number of new immigrants would be more than ten million.
It should be noted here that although the East African government does not count the local population, it still counts immigrants every year. The number of immigrants is what it is and will not change due to the birth rate.
This is just the immigrant population. In fact, it only takes more than ten days to travel from the Far East and Europe to East Africa by boat. The arrangements for these immigrants to enter East Africa will not exceed three months at most. After settling down, new immigrants will join the army of fertility. Well, it is indeed a bit difficult to deal with.
This is the ideal immigration situation. In fact, reality is the ideal situation. The economic crisis has created opportunities for East Africa. Even the United States, a pure immigration country, has people immigrating to East Africa. You can imagine the situation in other regions of the world.
Immigration in East Africa is led by the government, and immigration agencies have been established in European countries, East Asia and South America. Therefore, the East African Immigration Agency is the world's largest and most systematic immigration organization, and it is also the world's second largest slave trader.
In fact, in today's world, except for Arab and Indian men and black people, other countries are the targets of the East African Immigration Agency to meet the immigration needs of East Africa.
Take Germany for example. The total population in southern Germany, which has been sucked dry by East Africa for many years, has not decreased significantly, but it has not increased either. Therefore, East Africa's absorption of immigrants will not cause any losses to any country.
After all, after the Industrial Revolution, the world's population has skyrocketed to more than 1.27 billion, and the number of East African immigrants is not even a fraction of that.
Of course, East Africa has its own national conditions, so many situations are very different from the ways in which immigration countries in the Americas absorb immigrants.
In general, immigration is a spontaneous act of the people, but the difficulty of migrating across continents is quite difficult for the people of this era.
The boat tickets for American immigrants are mainly paid by various companies and enterprises that are short of people, and then deducted from the immigrants' wages. These things are basically clearly stated in the contract, while East Africa directly waives the boat ticket. In this way, East Africa is in an advantageous position between the two choices. After all, the United States even calculates the boat ticket so clearly. Do you still want to make a fortune in the United States? Do you really think there is gold everywhere?
Secondly, the marketing methods of East Africa are different. The immigration advertisements in East Africa focus on demonstration, taking the grassroots people as the basis, and then returning to their hometowns to recruit people. East Africa really dares to do this, while the United States can only make up stories in newspapers and engage in fraud.
Finally, East African immigration is not limited to white people. The Far East and Europe are equally important, so East Africa is in a buyer's market. The Far East here does not refer to a national concept but the Far East in the true sense.
Of course, in addition to these normal methods, East Africa also uses some unconventional tactics, which is to report the true situation of American immigrants through European newspapers without any changes.
The United States does have a higher ceiling for development, but most people are self-aware, just like German farmers, who know their own limitations. Compared to the fantasy of getting rich in the United States, the conditions in East Africa are more suitable for them.
The second thing that needs special attention is the education system in East Africa. The education system has played a major role in reducing the cost of childbirth for the people. With the implementation of the secondary school system, people born in East Africa spend ten years in school. One of the most important things is that schools in East Africa also provide lunch.
Taking this into consideration, the total population of East Africa in 1880 was at least over 30 million. The exact figure will have to wait until the census is restarted to find out, but it is possible that the figure may have exceeded 40 million.
The reproductive capacity of humans in an agricultural society cannot be ignored, and East Africa is an agricultural country with industrial attributes.
As for restricting immigration, it is better to say that it is screening immigrants. This was East Africa’s original immigration policy, which was mainly aimed at drug addicts. East Africa does not care about minor problems such as malnutrition.
Moreover, the increased immigration restrictions this time are mainly aimed at German immigrants in the United States. After all, the United States is the base of liberalism. As a monarchy, East Africa naturally needs to prevent some of the "corrupt" ideas of the United States from flowing into East Africa. Except for the United States, the entire Americas are like this, without a single monarchy. How can East Africa be assured?
Moreover, East Africa's overall investment in immigration has actually increased. For example, female immigrants are very welcome in East Africa. The last time East African statistics were conducted, the proportion of women was close to 47%. A large proportion of these women have spent money to come to East Africa. Even Indian and Muslim women are welcome in East Africa, except for black people of course.
The problem of over-population is not unique to East Africa. The social atmosphere in the 19th century made it convenient for East Africa to buy and sell "**". After all, in most areas, men had to inherit the family business, and the status of women was low, and they even became commodities.
The wool comes from the sheep, and the money used to redeem the women in East Africa is naturally repaid by the single men in East Africa through work. In the early days, it was used as a reward mechanism to motivate immigrants.
(End of this chapter)
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