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ON GLOBAL POPULATION TRENDS

Posted on June 29, 2008

DEMOGRAPHIC TECTONICSAs a long-time geek on demographic matters, this weekend's New York Times Magazine cover story on the falling birth rates in Europe caught my eye, especially with this bit: Around the time that President Kennedy went to Germany and gave his Ich bin ein Berliner speech, Europe represented 12.5 percent of the world s population.Today it is 7.2 percent, and if current trends continue, by 2050 only 5percent of the world will be European. Demographics is Destiny as they say, and the devil is in the details, as they go on to say. This article has a lot of both, includin...

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