Puerto Rico is going into a demographic death spiral. Births fell from 17,358 in the first half of 2013 to 15,099 in the first half of 2015. No doubt that massive decline continues. At this rate births might have been below 30,000 in 2015.
Keep in mind Puerto Rico had as many as 91,000 births after WWII and still as many as 60,000 in the year 2000.
At the rate PR is going, they could have fertility below 1 child per woman soon... which historically has only happened during periods of extreme disease, famine, or all out war.
Birth control and emigration of young people play the biggest role but the people who hold PR's debt are literally strangling the island. And the anemic response by congress will not solve it.
Puerto Rico might do well to accept a lot of refugees; sending them there isn't really much worse than sending them to a post-industrial hellscape like Utica or Detroit and the weather's better.
