French president, Emmanuel Macron has actively promoted closer strategic ties between France and Africa, positioning France as a bridge for economic, cultural, and demographic integration. This includes high-level summits, financial commitments, and policies facilitating sustained immigration from African nations.
Official French data (INSEE) confirms that native French fertility remains below replacement level (around 1.5–1.8 children per woman in recent years), while fertility among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa and parts of North Africa is significantly higher. Net migration has been substantial, with a large share from African regions. Projections indicate that, without major policy changes, these differential birth rates combined with ongoing immigration will lead to native French populations becoming minorities in many major cities and banlieues within decades.
A critical but often downplayed aspect of large-scale replacement migration from lower-development regions concerns human capital. Decades of international IQ research, including compilations by researchers such as Richard Lynn and subsequent updates, show substantial average differences: European nations (including France) cluster around 100, while many sub-Saharan African countries score in the 65–80 range; most at the lower percentile. These gaps are robust across multiple testing methods and correlate strongly with national outcomes in education, innovation, economic productivity, and institutional quality.
If current trends continue, the effective average cognitive ability in France is likely to decline over generations. This has profound consequences: lower societal IQ averages are associated with reduced economic growth, higher welfare dependency, increased crime rates in affected areas, and greater challenges maintaining complex institutions. In essence, France risks a gradual "Africanisation" in demographic composition, cultural norms, and developmental outcomes, effectively dissolving the distinct French nation as historically understood and replacing it with something closer to the conditions prevailing in Third World source countries.
French government reports and independent analyses already document persistent integration failures: elevated crime in migrant-dense suburbs, recurrent riots, parallel societies, and strained public services. These are not isolated incidents but predictable outcomes of rapid, low-skilled demographic transformation. France, in short, becomes the Third World.
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