人口减少的原因是什么？
其一是大家熟知的低出生率和人口减少的地区。
One is the familiar place of low fertility and population decline.
现在东德已经可以提供人口减少的模板供参考。
And the east is already providing models for coping with demographic decline.
如果你想知道人口减少的国家是什么样子，你可以看看日本。
And if you want to look at what a country in demographic decline looks like, look at Japan.
甚至在年轻人口减少的日本，也以46%的增速培养了大批博士。
Even Japan, where the number of young people is shrinking, churned out about 46% more PhDs.
近年来，中国农村贫困人口减少的速度趋于缓慢，农村“新贫困”现象严重。
Recent years, the rate of China's poverty-alleviation becomes slow and there is new poverty in rural areas.
人类人口减少的唯一时间段是1347年之后的数年，即黑死病在欧洲蔓延期间。
The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
企业需要让更多的老人、妇女投入工作，以针对性地解决工作年龄的人口减少的问题。
Businesses needed to bring more old people and women into jobs, to counter the decline in the working-age population.
报告认为，空气品质，矿物、电力设施以及石油勘探造成的污染是印度，墨西哥和非洲人口减少的主要原因。
Air quality and pollution from mines, power plants and oil exploration have been responsible for population losses in India, Mexico and Africa, it says.
因此，大量的钱币窖藏是人口减少的风向标，两位研究人员在《国家科学院科学星期一公报》上就此发表了一些看法。
Thus, large Numbers of coin hoards are a good quantitative indicator of population decline, two researchers argue in in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Monday.
必须把农业部门放在发展的中心，才能在2015年把极度贫困和饥饿人口减少一半。
The agriculture sector must be placed at the center of development to cut in half extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.
现在，即使是该计划最大的支持者也在谈论面临债务、人口减少和低增长的“百慕大三角”大陆的话题。
Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth.
俄罗斯人的过早死亡可能会导致人口减少，这将损害该国的经济前景。
The earlier death of Russians may result in a shrinking population, which would damage its economic future.
在罗马与会的代表们承诺将继续努力以2015年为限使饥饿人口减少一半。
The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by 2015.
联合国粮农组织说，粮食产量的提高可以将营养不良人口减少17%之多。
The FAO said that increase in food production could reduce the number of undernourished people by as much as 17 percent.
在2015年把贫困人口减少一半的目标在全球层面有望实现，但是在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，如果不能尽快提高进展速度，就难以实现。
The goal to halve poverty by 2015 will likely be met at the global level, but not in Sub-Saharan Africa unless progress there can be accelerated quickly.
有些人认为人口减少是值得庆祝的，按这种说法地球上的人很明显是太多了。
Some regard this as a cause for celebration, on the ground that there are obviously too many people on the planet.
鉴于今年世界的重点是加速实现到2015年把贫困人口减少一半的目标，这一点尤为重要。
This is especially important as the world is focused this year on accelerating progress on the goal of halving extreme poverty by the year 2015.
据史密森尼的网站称，随之而来的饥荒使冰岛的人口减少了五分之一。
A resulting famine led to the loss of one-fifth of Iceland's population, according to the Smithsonian website.
白人、西班牙裔，特别是亚裔的贫困人口增加，而黑人的贫困人口减少。
Poverty increases among whites, Hispanics, and especially Asians, but decreases among blacks.
巴西的绝对赤贫人口减少了一半。
1990至2004年期间每天一美元的贫困人口减少了2.6亿多人，另一个关键原因就是中国在这个时期的大规模减贫。
Another key reason dollar-a-day poverty fell by over 260 million between 1990 and 2004 was China's massive poverty reduction over that period.
2007年4月5日—1997年亚洲金融危机十年之后，东亚地区财力较前大为雄厚，贫困人口减少，在全球发挥的作用空前增大。
April 5, 2007-ten years on from the 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis and the region is far wealthier, has fewer poor people and a larger global role than ever before.
日本一智囊机构指出，到2025年，机器人将填补日本350万个劳动力空缺，这将有利于缓解该国因人口减少而造成的劳动力不足问题。
Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.
除非人类终于意识到要把人口减少到这样的程度：使地球能为所有人提供足够的饮食，否则人们将不得不接受更多的“人造食品”。
Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the points where the planet can provide a comfortable support for all, people will have to accept more "unnatural food." (1991：74)
除非人类终于意识到要把人口减少到这样的程度：使地球能为所有人提供足够的饮食，否则人们将不得不接受更多的“人造食品”。
Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the points where the planet can provide a comfortable support for all, people will have to accept more "unnatural food." (1991：74)
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