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>>toomuc+(OP)
I hate to ask a stupid question, but... So what?

The housing prices are extraordinary and the cost for people to live so far north is significant. Maybe we don't need a lot of people being born up north. There's certainly enough people on the planet to make up for any headcount-shortfall with immigration (and in Norway in particular, quite a few people born there move away these days because cost of living is so high).

>>shadow+T8
This is assuming that all people/groups are essentially equally productive, which is not true.

People in more developed countries are >10x more productive than people in undeveloped countries.

>>bequan+Dp
So they move to Norway to make up the shortfall and become more productive. It's not like the magic of birth is what makes people in more developed countries 10x more productive.