Europe Isn't Dying, It's Aging

This calendar week the Daily Telegraph published an interactive map of nascency rates to a greater extent than or less the world. The map provides a choropleth persuasion of each country's nascency charge per unit of measurement too annual population increment percentage.

The article, How Europe is Slowly Dying, uses the map to debate that Europe is slow dying because of the depression nascency rates. However hidden away inwards the article is the fact that "Europe's population is overall increasing".

It is truthful that inwards Eastern Europe many countries are facing a driblet inwards the annual population increment percentage. It is likewise truthful that the map does seem to demonstrate a full general designing where nascency rates are lower inwards countries amongst stronger economies too higher inwards countries amongst weaker economies. This appears to suit to the controversial theory of the Demographic-Economic Paradox which argues that the higher the bird of pedagogy too gross domestic product of a province too hence the fewer children are born.


Although Europe isn't dying it is aging. The Slate's interactive map, The Aging World, shows that Europe too Nihon inwards exceptional bring an unusually high percent of their population over 65 years of age. However, according to the United Nations (projected) information that the map uses, virtually of the developed basis volition sense similar aging populations past times 2100.


Japan’s aging population is explored inwards to a greater extent than exceptional inwards the Japanese Population Map. The Japanese are living longer too having fewer children too afterwards inwards life. By 2060 the Japanese regime are predicting that over one-half the population volition hold upward over 65.

This Japanese Population Map visualizes the 2040 population predictions for every Japanese prefecture. Using the map you lot tin explore the population predictions for the issue of immature females too a breakdown of the overall population past times historic current group.