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European demographics in the NY Times

Posted on June 30, 2008

Middle-long, middle-brow article on European demographics in this weeks NY Times Magazine. (If it asks you for a login, try bugmenot.) If you re already interested in this topic, 80% of it will be familiar stuff. There were a couple of interesting new points, though:First, there s some interesting discussion of why birthrates are varying so much across Europe lowest in the post-Communist East and the Mediterranean countries, much higher (though still low by world standards) in France and Scandinavia. One demographer gives this plausible-sounding answer:[There] would seem to be two ...

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