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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @11:53AM
The problem in most those countries is one of propping up their welfare/socialized state payments system.
Not even that, because dead people don't require doctors and hospitals and new roads and pensions etc. The REAL problem is that banks find it hard to expand credit when no new babies are being born and there's no demand for new construction when buildings stand empty. Property prices tend to fall when that happens, and this is bad (for the banks, since their books and business model are based on ever rising property prices).