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It looks like large parts of Germany have lost population but it looks like most of the cities are still growing despite the low birth rate. Much of Eastern Europe has also lost population with the exception of a few cities l(Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade and Novi Pazar)
Interesting map but it seems a little optimistic. A few regions around where I live are officially 'decline regions' but the map shows them as growth regions.
Per table 83, Hispanic fertility rate in the US is over 40% higher than the fertility rate of whites (which includes Hispanic whites, so the difference between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites is even larger).
The 2011 census was the first one in West-Germany since 1987. The population was 1.5 million people less in 2011 than the estimation for that year based on the 1987 census and therefore the decline is bigger than expected compared to the 2001 overestimate.
Otherwise the 2000s were a bad decade here economically with high unemployment rates and almost as many emigrants as immigrants.
I'm sure a 2011-2015 map would show less shrinking areas in Germany. And even if not, I don't see what's so bad about a declining population.
If you look at the major urban areas, they are almost all growing (mainly due to immigration), it's the rural areas which are shrinking, it wouldn't surprise if many villages and towns became empty 50 years from now, this is already happening.
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Originally Posted by drro
Interesting map but it seems a little optimistic. A few regions around where I live are officially 'decline regions' but the map shows them as growth regions.
Which are the areas you are talking about?
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It won't happen. But yeah some people really need to f*** more.
My region is all in orange, I'm surprised, thought the biggest growth would have been near Paris or something.
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