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    [OC] Assyrian demographic decline in my lifetime
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    [OC] Assyrian demographic decline in my lifetime

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    1. Redditoyo on

      I am a millennial from an Assyrian town in the Nineveh Plains region of Iraq.

      I gathered these data from my personal social media contacts. Everyone in the dataset was born in the same village and speaks Aramaic as their mother tongue. I filtered out second-generation diaspora Assyrians and those under 30 years old.

      Data analyzed using R (ggplot2), Jittering applied to prevent overlapping points.

      This visualization shows the relationship between **age** (x-axis, reversed) and **number of children** (y-axis), while also tracking historical events and their demographic impact. The top x-axis represents a **timeline ending in 2025**. Different colored regions highlight key historical periods:

      * **Pre-Saddam Era** (Blue): Economic growth.
      * **Iran-Iraq War** (Purple): Relative economic prosperity. Some emigrate to dodge being drafted.
      * **International Embargo** (Yellow): Economic hardships. Rise of religiosity. Internal migration to larger cities.
      * **US Invasion** (Green): Relative economic growth. Increased emigration due to declining security.
      * **Post-ISIS** (Red): ISIS takes over of the town and those who remain flee. Few return after the fall of ISIS.

      Key insights of my small circle of friends and family:

      * Birth rates have declined significantly over time.
      * Homeland retention (red points) decreases sharply post-ISIS.
      * Aramaic-speaking households are still present but shrinking.

      **Higher quality image** [**HERE**](https://imgur.com/IcmYrr9)**.**

    2. Sisyphuss5MinBreak on

      Props at what you’re attempting OP, but do you really feel you can make any significant statements with an n=7-22?

    3. Reasonable_Fold6492 on

      The first genocide came during the Arab conquest. Than during the timurid conquest many assyrians were massacred from being Christian. Finally the kurds during ww1 joined the ottoman and massacred much assyrians they could find. Now Kurdish nationalist on the internet are saying historical assyrian land and culture are actually all kurds.

    5. LopsidedBell5994 on

      Very sad to see this. I am a Hungarian, but have always taken great interest in Assyrian culture. I wish your community a recovery in numbers, homeland and cultural/spiritual heritage from the bottom of my heart.

    6. juksbox on

      You cannot make generalisation of the whole population by only using your friends and family members. The title is not only misleading, it is a lie.