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More People in Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday January 16 2016, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-get-it-on dept.

AnonTechie writes:

More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S., with few exceptions.

Texas A&M Professor of Sociology Dudley Poston, along with Professor Kenneth Johnson, University of New Hampshire, and Professor Layton Field, Mount St. Mary's University, published their findings in Population and Development Review this month.

The researchers find that 17 European nations have more people dying in them than are being born (natural decrease), including three of Europe's more populous nations: Russia, Germany and Italy. In contrast, in the U.S. and in the state of Texas, births exceed deaths by a substantial margin.

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-people-europe-dying-born.html

[Abstract]: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00089.x/abstract (DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00089.x)

[Source]: Is Europe Dying

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:49AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <reversethis-{grO ... a} {eniugnaStoN}> on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:49AM (#290159) Homepage Journal

    /RedFoxx) I'm coming to join you, Edith! It's the big one! Oh, Lordy! //Reddfox

    Actually it was Elizabeth [wikipedia.org] not Edith. Edith [wikipedia.org] (Dingbat) was Archie's [wikipedia.org] wife.

    It's not surprising that you should confuse the two as the two shows aired in competition with each other.

    What's actually more of on-topic interest here is that both the Sanfords and Bunkers each only had one child -- hence contributing, at least fictionally, to "sub-replacement fertility" rates.

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  • (Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:58AM

    by Adamsjas (4507) on Saturday January 16 2016, @06:58AM (#290162)

    My five siblings and I liked to watch both those shows.

    The fiction of sub-replacement fertility never crossed our minds.

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:09AM

      by NotSanguine (285) <reversethis-{grO ... a} {eniugnaStoN}> on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:09AM (#290165) Homepage Journal

      My five siblings and I liked to watch both those shows.

      The fiction of sub-replacement fertility never crossed our minds.

      I and my eight (well, six now:( ) siblings may or may not have all watched both shows. Although I did.

      However, Sub-replacement Fertility Rates [wikipedia.org] are not fiction, at least not for almost half the world's population, including the United States.

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