During that time, the United States enjoyed high birth rates and a strong demographic dividend.
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True, birth rates were too high in the early days of the People's Republic.
Moreover, Mr Breivik's prophecies of conquest by multiplying is confounded by rapidly falling immigrant birth rates.
But more important is the decline in birth rates when people leave the countryside.
The problem is more serious in Europe than in America, because birth rates have been lower.
Others include low birth rates, pension and health-care reforms, corruption and weak public administration.
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In a largely rural region, falling birth rates and empty desks have already led to some reorganisation.
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The topic of reduced birth rates in developed nations has been of interest to me for several reasons.
Meanwhile, the working population will have been thinned by the low birth rates of the past 15 years.
But by 2005 that had eroded, too, with birth rates in the state also dropping at an incredible rate.
It is not just Asian countries that find it hard to boost birth rates once they are in decline.
Part is also happenstance: birth rates are high in some large, arid stretches of Africa and the Middle East.
You might expect that countries which reduced their birth rates the most would also have cut child mortality comparably.
Trying to raise birth rates is difficult because people's fertility does not seem to respond much to fiscal incentives.
Using nineteenth-century birth rates, he projected that the number of people on the planet would double three times every century.
Because of very low birth rates among old-stock Germans, the proportion of foreign-born is highest among those younger than 20s.
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Immigrants from the former Soviet Union, only moderately religious, make up half the population, but their birth rates are low.
Though lately birth rates have declined, the approximately 4 million children being born per year is equal to the early 2000s.
Like France and Italy, Germany suffers from a killer combination of an ageing population, low birth rates and generous pension provision.
The first group knew perfectly well that economic development, education and rights for women were very effective in reducing birth rates.
The extremely competitive work environment, which now includes growing numbers of well-educated females, is having a negative impact on birth rates.
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The birth rates for teenage mothers in deprived areas are 80% higher.
If birth rates continue to rise we will need to train more.
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Those countries recording large falls in birth rates have governments that have decided to promote the use of contraceptives to modify fertility levels.
Birth rates in the Baltics have consistently fallen for the past several years, and are now, on average, about 20% lower than in Russia.
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It has to become more competitive, better integrate immigrants, reform welfare, reverse plummeting birth rates and learn to punch its weight on the world stage.
Official data also suggest that immigration may be another factor behind rising birth rates - foreign-born mothers make up nearly a quarter of the figures.
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"We're also the oldest city in Italy demographically, with an aging population and one of the lowest birth rates in the country, " Mr. Fantinel says.
In America, as in most rich countries, longer life expectancies and lower birth rates will leave relatively fewer active workers to support the growing number of pensioners.
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