(CNN) -- For the last 20 years, what name is always in the top 100 most popular baby names given to boys in the United States? Jesus (pronounced hey-seus). And among 4,500 boys names in England in 2009, what was the No. 1 most popular baby name? Mohammed. In Brussels? Mohammed. Oslo? Mohammed. Amsterdam? Mohammed. And what do babies and their names have to do with the global economy? Everything. The currency of the future is babies, because babies grow up to be taxpaying workers. Let's do Demography 101, which is basically the study of baby-making. Demographers have a fancy term called "total fertility rate," which measures the average number of babies a woman has over her childbearing years.
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Charles Garcia: Western nations need to grow in population to maintain power
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Garcia says more and more Muslims are in Europe and will fuel growth
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Garcia: In U.S., Hispanic and other immigrants are an economic growth engine
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Immigrants work hard, form strong families, pay taxes and are patriotic, he writes
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