| The idea that you can improve your wealth by encouraging your birthrate or boosting immigration to make up the numbers makes no sense at all. |
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| Only two countries are above the western European average: Slovenia, thanks to its wealth, and Turkey, because of its booming birthrate. |
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| The Aboriginal birthrate is 1.5 times that of the non-Aboriginal population. |
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| Greater life expectancy in conjunction with a falling birthrate is leading to appreciable growth in the percentage of elderly persons in society. |
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| Where enrolment has fallen, the decrease is due primarily to rural to urban migration, but also, to some extent, to a falling birthrate. |
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| Such an uneven birthrate makes it hard for scientists to determine if right whales are producing enough calves to maintain the species. |
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| Much of Asia's economic success and its accompanying social benefits are the result of a birthrate that is much lower than the African average. |
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| But what would happen over the next few decades to bring that about: A decrease in the birthrate? |
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| It has a birthrate of about 4.2 children per family, compared to Canada's 1.6 per family currently. |
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| We have to reckon with Canada's low birthrate and the inevitable retirement of many, not in the distant future but around the corner. |
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| In the past year, approximately 19,500 immigrants arrived and the country's birthrate came in at 1.8 percent. |
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| Economies in most of the region continue to deteriorate, complicated by a high birthrate which is generating huge numbers of unemployable young men. |
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| When there is proper support for families that want to have children and programs to provide them with a reasonable standard of living, then we see an increase in the birthrate. |
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| Look at the human demographic situation, where we have an ageing population, a dropping birthrate in most Member States, and where we do not have strategies to respond to that. |
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| The survey did shine a bit of light onto the big Japanese falling birthrate problem. |
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| A steady stream of dismal reports have documented soup kitchens for the middle class, a surge in mental illness and suicide, a rise in abandoned children, a fall in the birthrate, and a healthcare collapse. |
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| The burgeoning birthrate is just one of a number of reasons for worry. More recently, the country's harmony has been threatened by political strife. |
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| Because of the low birthrate, the aging population, and the need to sustain the growth of the labour force, the proportion of immigrants needs to increase in coming years. |
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| He said that because of our declining population and declining birthrate we are in serious need of more workers and young people and yet we are spending all that money to deport people. |
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| However, the authors were mainly motivated not by religious considerations but rather, in a Gaullist perspective, by the national interest: their disapproval of divorce was designed to protect the family and the birthrate. |
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| Serious priority should be given to immigration in Quebec in the years to come, even if for the first time in half a century, one notices an increase in the birthrate. |
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| We're facing a lower birthrate, an aging population, the exodus of many of our citizens to big cities and locations in Central and Western Canada. |
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| As Ottawa's workforce ages and the birthrate declines, immigration will account for all of the region's labour force growth in the next five to 10 years. |
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| The inhabitants of the Federal Republic of Germany and Denmark are becoming fewer and fewer, for the birthrate of those countries is lower than their death rate. |
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| In the struggle to break cycles of poverty, experts have been searching for decades for ways to lower America's astronomical birthrate among teenagers. |
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| The latest figure showed that the pace of decline accelerated from the previous two years despite the government's efforts to stem a further drop in the birthrate. |
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| Family Planning Association official, as saying he is optimistic Indonesia can meet the target because it has managed already to limit its birthrate. |
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| Isn't the combination of the lowering white birthrate and the higher Hispanic birthrate, coupled with illegal immigration, going to make the Southwest brown? |
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| Public hospitals that deliver more than 200 babies per year have legal minimum staffing levels calculated by the Birthrate Plus tool. |
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