Don't ask the sociologists, the demographers, the advertising agencies, and certainly not the tobacco companies.
Still, many Chinese and Western economists and demographers say that urbanization can be a double-edged sword.
Around 1970, many African-Americans began moving back to the South, historians and demographers say.
Demographers use the information to explore how cultural and economic differences can change the experience, Copen said.
Demographers have often noted that most of the emerging world will stay young while the rich world ages.
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Across the nation, people are self-sorting into neighborhoods and cities with likeminded peers, political experts and demographers say.
Demographers predict that by 2010 the number of Japanese aged 20 to 29 will have fallen by over 4m.
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Demographers have stated that the ideal birthrate rate for China is 16.7 per 1, 000, or 1.7 children per family.
In border states like Texas, demographers say, Hispanic populations are expected to surpass non-Hispanic populations within the next decade.
Yet real estate developers, demographers and economists believe demand across the U.S. for downtown living will flourish in coming years.
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Although statistics are sparse, demographers reckon Britain has a higher rate of inter-ethnic cohabitation and marriage than other western nations.
With more Hispanic than white residents, Houston today is what demographers say many American cities will look like in 30 years.
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Setbacks on this scale have not been seen in the U.S. since the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, according to demographers.
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One might argue over reasons, but the fact is demographers expect the number of single, childless Japan will only keep on growing.
Demographers say about half of working-age illegal immigrants in the United States have children, most of whom are U.S.-born and therefore citizens.
Genealogists have been looking forward to this release as they would a national holiday, as have thousands of historians, economists and demographers.
The above will no doubt give demographers such as Joel Kotkin pause.
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The main concern of demographers in their heyday (the 1970s and 1980s) was high fertility and the total number of the world's people.
Mr. Kotkin, one of the nation's premier demographers, left his native New York City in 1971 to enroll at the University of California, Berkeley.
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But the birth rates of the two communities are now converging, and most demographers think that the majority will probably stay narrowly Protestant for quite some time.
Policymakers, demographers and military men all thought rapid population growth was the biggest single threat to mankind and that drastic measures would be needed to rein it in.
On the other side of the debate is the advocacy group, made up of two dozen leading demographers, economists and former Family Planning officials who joined forces in 2000.
His critique consists of a few quibbles that might make for an interesting coffee break dispute among demographers, but in no way affect the basic facts that I reported.
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Some demographers also suggest that young people will choose to live in high-density regions throughout their lives and that as boomers age they too will opt out of suburbs for urban apartment living.
At the time, there was considerable uncertainty among demographers and actuaries about whether or not the substantial increase in life expectancy seen in the past couple of decades would continue or start to tail off.
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