但从人口统计学的角度上来说，北美是工业化的地区当中唯一一个人口正在增长的地区。
Look at the demographics alone. North America is the only part of the industrialized world that will be growing in people.
弗格森说，“用人口统计学的术语来讲就是，西方社会长期代表着全世界的小众人口，但是当今社会，这种小众化趋势明显逐渐减小。
“In demographic terms, ” Mr. Ferguson says, “the population of Western societies has long represented a minority of the world’s inhabitants, but today it is clearly a dwindling one.
当有利的人口统计学趋势恶化，或城市化进程结束时，都可能出现这种局面。
This could happen either when the favourable demographic trend worsens or urbanisation ends.
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