Source: TOI
ASHINGTON: More people in Europe are dying than being born, according to a study that found, in contrast, that births are exceeding deaths by significant margins in the US.
The researchers found that 17 European nations have more people dying than are being born (natural decrease), including three of Europe’s more populous nations: Russia, Germany and Italy . In contrast, in the US and in the state of Texas, births exceed deaths by a substantial margin.”In 2013 in Texas, for example, there were over 387,000 births compared to ust over 179,000 deaths,” said Dudley Poston, professor of sociology at Texas A&M University . “The only two states in the US with more deaths than births are the coal mining state of West Virginia and the forest product state of Maine,” said Poston. The research focused on the prevalence and dynamics of natural decrease in the counties and countyequivaents of Europe and the US in the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009).
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