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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: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday January 16 2016, @01:23PM
It's strange.
Overpopulation is an alarming problem, has been for quite some time...
Now underpopulation is a problem???
You can't have it both ways, folks....
(Score: 1, Troll) by Justin Case on Saturday January 16 2016, @02:21PM
Any big-government bootlicker can easily explain this.
Everything must be, and remain, exactly the same everywhere.
No state can be at the top or bottom of the worst schools list, or any other sorted list. They must all be the same.
No one can have more or less opportunity -- or outcome. In school, everybody gets an A. Everybody goes to college and graduates.
The climate cannot get warmer, or colder, or change at all. It must always remain as it is now. Or was in the good old days. Or whatever. Change is bad.
Prices cannot rise, or fall. Both are bad. Except my salary. That must rise regularly and significantly.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 16 2016, @07:55PM
Environmentalists consider overpopulation a problem because, everything else being equal, more people leave a heavier "footprint" upon the Earth.
Economists consider underpopulation a problem because, everything else being equal, more people engage in more economic activity.
In 2014, there was economic growth without increased emissions of carbon dioxide.
https://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/news/2015/march/global-energy-related-emissions-of-carbon-dioxide-stalled-in-2014.html [iea.org]