In each of the past four years the Census Bureau has had to revise down the estimated Hispanic population, leading to smaller estimates of the overall labour force.
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The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.
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Only when these experiments failed did emigration (much of it paid for by landowners) increase, leading to a drop in population in the late 1800s.
It can reduce issues around maternal health and high child fatality rates, which are leading to a combined global population that is both very young and aging at the same time.
The lack of water has apparently thinned out the population a bit, leading Shade to invest in some imaginary friends.
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The hedgehogs have been eating birds' eggs and chicks, leading to a big decline in the population of rare waders.
The Japanese auto market has already been declining steadily over many years due to its aging and shrinking population, rapid urbanization, leading to space constraints in many Japanese cities and high tax burden on car owners.
Slowing the economy, such a trend could increase the share of the population relying on government transfers, leading to a vicious cycle (Alesina and Wacziarg 1998).
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By lowering the competition for food, successful poisons tend to make the survivors more healthy and fertile, leading to a rapid rebound in the pest population.
The Piazza San Marco is timeless, but the sociology of its tourist population has changed markedly, a leading indicator for sure as to the health of Euroland if not the world.
Smallpox decimated much of the native American population when it came over with the Europeans, more than 400 years ago. (One reason, by the way, the buffalo population exploded in the West, leading subsequent settlers to think the animal could be killed with abandon).
In 1700 the world's biggest economy (and leading cotton producer) was India, with a population of 165m, followed by China, with 138m.
You make no mention of the alarming population growth in the third world, which plays a leading role in driving emigration.
In the college-age population in general, moreover, homicide is the second leading cause of death, while on college campuses it remains a rare event.
But over the same period, the number of fishermen (along with the population as a whole) has more than tripled, leading to a decline of 44% in the amount each one takes home.
The move has not gone unnoticed internationally, with Dunster (population: 860) featuring on French TV, in a leading German magazine and being visited by a Japanese news agency.
The leading candidate at the moment is Carraguard, developed by the Rockefeller-affiliated Population Council.
For example, a company you may know best for manufacturing lawnmowers and tractors has a much bigger mission, aimed squarely at global challenges and opportunities: the impact of population growth on food production, and growing affluence in developing countries leading to greater urbanization, more infrastructure, improved housing and food choices.
The Royal Society, supposedly the leading scientific organisation in the UK, has just released a report looking at the interplay of population growth and consumption and what that means for future economic growth.
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As transition proceeds in these areas, nearly 75 percent of the population of Afghanistan will be living in provinces, districts and villages where Afghan forces are leading.
With the leading edge of the 78 million baby boomers now in their early 60s, America's aging population underpins the bullish future of health care as a sector.
Hannah has been leading such trips for six years and sees how visitors struggle to tally their experiences, of a population apparently proud of their country, with the stories they read back home.
This is a critical success factor when managing and leading major transformational changes that include rapid growth in third-world countries, and in the global population, as well as a huge increase in the number of people connecting online around the world.
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Benjamin Stora, perhaps France's leading historian of Algeria, refuses to jump to conclusions: modern Algeria, with 60% of the population under the age of 30 and with most people living in the cities, not the countryside, is a far cry from the Algeria which broke free from France two generations ago.
The bottom line: A large population, a large labor force, and a dose of markets may be the necessary condition for leading the global economy.
This looks like a re-run of the discussion leading up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, in which development groups angrily rejected any intellectual framing in which population growth in developing countries was identified as the core global problem.
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