Comments on: Govt. Release Population Projections Report

By: SERZ TALK

SERZ TALK — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:18:03 +0000

mug… someone needs to import more tail. this island is DRY!

By: X man

X man — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:21:01 +0000

I can see a less decline in the population as far less Babies are born in the future because
[1] the Cost – having a child is extremly expensive – only 30% of the population today can truly support the Cost!
[2] Less unwed Marriages — yes a lot of Women have finaly realised that it is not worth it especialy if the Fathers don’t have the money to pay.
[3] the economy of Bermuda no longer what it was — those days of having all sorts of free spending money is just about gone.
[4] I acturly believe more people will leave to live in other countries.- the exodus has begun!
The population will be just over 55,000 in the year 2020 – that chart don’t mean a dam thing to me.

By: Failsafe

Failsafe — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:47:12 +0000

So much for an island paradise you wouldn’t want to leave, time Bermudians wised up, it’s a big world out there.

And so much for nasty expats taking the jobs! They’ve all gone back to Connecticut and London thanks to the PLP.

Lights out Ewart.

By: What's Happening Here?

What's Happening Here? — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 01:47:20 +0000

This report reads like a thesis for a Masters degree. A poorly concocted one at that.

One primary question. “Bermudian” is the word used. What about non-Bermudians residing and working here on work permits. Where do they fit in?

As I recall, and a quick check confirms it, Census 2010 only counted 50,500 people who had Bermudian Status, so the other 14,000 in 2010 had to be non-Bermudian.

Are these 14,000 non-Bermudians behaving exactly the same as Bermudians? Or is this 14,000 following its own muses and behaving distinctly differently from Bermudians? Are they, too, going to decline? Are they, too, going to age as Bermudians will age?

If I were the professor receiving this thesis, I’d toss it back at the person who’d wasted my time by asking me to read the damn thing.

By: js

js — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:33:28 +0000

64k residents and all this mess and mayhem

the seeds of Bermuda’s demise was sown centuries ago

looks like you can’t change ugly

By: maths geek

maths geek — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:27:14 +0000

What a dreadful graph, the time-axis is non-linear, the population-axis cut off and the, rather sparse, data points not shown. This is basic high school mathematics. Graphs are key methods for presenting all manner of data and should be drawn correctly to avoid potential misinterpretation. For example, it appears at first sight that there has been a rapid increase in population and then a predicted long period of stability in the future. please can we have a better effort in future from the statistics department.

By: Navin Johnson

Navin Johnson — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:25:50 +0000

Been saying it for a few years…we are in a slow but steady decrease in population and would bet we are already close to 60,000….people seem to be leaving all the time….either job loss or cost of living…..

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:13:12 +0000

Bah wah hah hah.

Reality is we started out with Adam and Eve.

So we levelled out.
This is a Saturday Night Live format.

Really.