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The world's current (overall as well as natural) growth rate is about 1.14%, representing a doubling time of 61 years. We can expect the world's population of 6.5 billion to become 13 billion by 2067 if current growth continues. The world's growth rate peaked in the 1960s at 2% and a doubling time of 35 years.
Most European countries have low growth rates. In the United Kingdom, the rate is 0.2%, in Germany it's 0.0%, and in France, 0.4%. Germany's zero rate of growth includes a natural increase of -0.2%, without immigration, Germany would be shrinking, like the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic and some other European countries' growth rate is actually negative (on average, women in the Czech Republic give birth to 1.2 children, which is below the number to yield zero population growth, approximately 2.1 children). The Czech Republic's natural growth rate of -0.1 can not be used to determine doubling time because the population is actually shrinking in size.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by paxnatus
I feel your concern but if we dig a little deeper we find like with anything in human societies we find patterns we are growing as a population globally but the west has it better off than the rest of the world in my opinion. Actually it appears that the west will have to import workers to have a basic labor force in the future, Maybe that’s why the US and Canada have pretty much an open door policy of emigration.
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The world's current (overall as well as natural) growth rate is about 1.14%, representing a doubling time of 61 years. We can expect the world's population of 6.5 billion to become 13 billion by 2067 if current growth continues. The world's growth rate peaked in the 1960s at 2% and a doubling time of 35 years.
Most European countries have low growth rates. In the United Kingdom, the rate is 0.2%, in Germany it's 0.0%, and in France, 0.4%. Germany's zero rate of growth includes a natural increase of -0.2%, without immigration, Germany would be shrinking, like the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic and some other European countries' growth rate is actually negative (on average, women in the Czech Republic give birth to 1.2 children, which is below the number to yield zero population growth, approximately 2.1 children). The Czech Republic's natural growth rate of -0.1 can not be used to determine doubling time because the population is actually shrinking in size.
Continuing a 12-year decline, the U.S. birth rate has dropped to the lowest level since national data have been available, according to statistics just released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The rate of births among teenagers also fell to a new record low, continuing a decline that began in 1991.
The birth rate fell to 13.9 per 1,000 persons in 2002, down from 14.1 per 1,000 in 2001 and down a full 17 percent from the recent peak in 1990 (16.7 per 1,000), according to a new CDC report, "Births: Preliminary Data for 2002." CDC analysts say the birth rate is dropping as the increasing life span of Americans results in a smaller proportion of women of child childbearing age.
Originally posted by paxnatus
Thanks for your reply. So you don't think anything like the Chinese government advocates, will ever be enforced here? That is fines, punishments and penalties for having more than one child?
The killing of baby girls, is it a result of poverty, or is it out of fear?
Am I way off base as to what you were saying?
Can you enlighten me? you have some good insight here Slayer. Thanks.
Originally posted by beijingxizhimen
about 400million less people were born in china from the one child policy put in place 30 years ago.without this policy,we would have 400 million more people in china competing for the world resources.
Originally posted by beijingxizhimen
you dont know everything,deserting baby girls does happen in china,but that just because in rural area some people still have the old traditional mentality that only boys can carry on the family linage.but it has never happened in big scale,deserting baby is extremely rare in china