He argues that mobile penetration in America is unlikely to grow as fast as it did in Japan and Europe because population density is much lower there, making it harder to set up economically viable networks.
The Black Death killed one-third of Europe's population, wages rose and the return on capital and land fell.
This, indeed, is the main reason Europe's population has not yet started declining.
And done soon: in western Europe the working population is likely to start shrinking as soon as next year or 2010.
The total Muslim share of Europe's population is predicted to grow from 6% now to 8% in 2030: hardly the stuff of nightmares.
In some places, "the wolf is coming back, nature is taking over, so to speak, and it's really literally only old people" left, says Harald Wilkoszewski, a political scientist with Population Europe, a collaborative network of European demographic research centers.
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They blamed government, and 67% favored increased spending to bring new medicines to Europe's aging population.
Europe's Roma population of up to 12 million still faces widespread discrimination today, rights groups say.
Great crested newts became a European Protected Species following a dramatic decline in their population across Europe.
As the senior population in Europe continues to grow rapidly, smartphone usage in this demographic is expected to rise.
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Italy has the oldest population in Europe and one of the lowest birth-rates.
Europe's indigenous population is ageing fast, with a quarter of it over 60.
The number of people over 65 will be equivalent to 60% of the working-age population in Europe in 2050, compared with only 40% in America.
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With an expanding and increasingly literate population throughout Europe, the arts became commercialised, the author and the composer selling their productions through the publisher and the impresario.
Every Tuesday and Wednesday, much of Europe's male population tunes in to watch the Champions League, the pan-European football championship embracing the best teams from all over Europe.
It absolutely is not inequality among the population of Europe.
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Looking more long term, the government knows that with the fourth fastest growing population in Europe, it cannot ignore the growing demand for new and improved infrastructure any longer.
Compare that prediction to 1950, when America had only half the population of Western Europe.
Despite the population rise recorded in 2003, Scotland still faces the fastest falling population anywhere in Europe.
France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, with an estimated 4.7 million followers of the faith.
After the Black Death killed a third of the population of medieval Europe, labour scarcity forced landowners to pay their workers better.
This is because the country is spoilt with a long coastline and an abundance of mountains, valleys, rivers and rolling farmlands, plus one of the lowest population densities in Europe.
France already has Europe's biggest Muslim population, and it is finding it hard to reconcile its model of integration, which relies on a strict separation of religion and state, with demands by French Muslims for religious expression within public institutions.
California, which receives a third of America's immigrants, has a population density higher than Europe's.
Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.
In Europe, about half the adult population is currently overweight, and urban areas of many developing countries have a similar prevalence, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The NIC suggests that by 2030, Asia will have more "overall power" than the US and Europe combined - taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP), military spending and investment in technology.
It is the same story for the European bison, which was limited to just a few zoos before re-introduction programs across eastern Europe helped re-build the population to current levels of around 1, 800.
After all, Turkey has a much younger population profile than most of Europe.
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Similar stories are common in South America and Europe, exacerbated by an aging global population, among which 65, 000 people reach retirement age daily.
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