Now comes the alternative projection of the population in Denmark, which many have requested.

A population projection has been criticized for not taking into account that some immigrants have children with people of Danish background. A new projection takes this into account – but it doesn’t change the result much.

What will happen to the population in the coming decades if we continue to have children like we do now and have immigration like we do now?

Quite a lot, on Monday, as Professor Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen from the University of Southern Denmark has done for Politiken. It shows a scenario where the low fertility causes the number of citizens of Danish origin to shrink so much that in 2096 it will be smaller than the number of immigrants and descendants.