by APFLI | Jan 1, 2005 | Population - Archive
“According to the French National Institute of Demographic Studies, the majority of the world’s people now live in countries where the population will never be replaced. In the past 50 years, average fertility has fallen from 5.4 to 2.1 children. During...
by APFLI | Jun 27, 2004 | Population Decline
A report by demographers at the UN Population Deivision concludes that economic development in Western Asian countries has been dependent upon migrating laborers from neighboring countries because the countries’ indigenous populations were insufficient. The...
by APFLI | Jun 27, 2004 | Population Decline
Taiwan is attempting to reverse its continuously declining birthrate, which stands at 1.16 children per woman, down from 6 children in the 1950s. The Ministry of the Interior, and Council for Economic Planning and Development has proposed awarding couples monetarily...
by APFLI | Mar 7, 2004 | Population - Archive
SOUTH KOREAN BIRTH RATE AT RECORD LOW – With a 1.17 fertility rate [below the replacement rate of 2.1 children/woman] South Korea has one of the worlds lowest fertility rates. Korean women had 490,000 babies (2002), down 62,000 from 2001. Govt officials may...
by APFLI | Mar 7, 2004 | Population Decline
MYTH – The world is overpopulated! …It is easy to believe that the world is overpopulated because human beings have always lived in crowded conditions and do so at the present time. We do so not because of lack of space on the planet but because of the...
