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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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:21AM
Weren't you one of the guys posting around here about needing half the population to just go away in order to save the planet?
The way toward falling birth rates is raising the living standard. Where ever the standard of living and quality of life rises, people start naturally reducing the number of children they care to rear.
Moving masses of people really isn't a solution to an over population problem.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:37AM
Weren't you one of the guys posting around here about needing half the population to just go away in order to save the planet?
Nope. That wasn't me. Nor do think that's the case.
The way toward falling birth rates is raising the living standard. Where ever the standard of living and quality of life rises, people start naturally reducing the number of children they care to rear.
You're absolutely correct. And if you look at the map on the wikipedia page I linked, it's pretty obvious that the large majority of the countries with "sub-replacement" fertility rates are the developed/rich countries.
Moving masses of people really isn't a solution to an over population problem.
I never said that it was. However, over the long term, those same countries will either need immigration or their populations will dwindle. Evening out the distribution of population a bit isn't a bad idea, IMHO.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by bootsy on Monday January 18 2016, @11:42AM
According to the UN the only correlation they could find with decreasing birth rates is higher levels of female literacy.
Girls who can read are far less likley to put up with producing unwanted children and more likely to plan for children they might actually want.