Perhaps the most pernicious economic effect of a declining population will be on urbanization.
Italy used dual nationality as a way to fight its declining population in the 1990s.
With a declining population and little incentive to commercial investment, Ascension is in a period of contraction.
It is confronting an economic stall with a rising currency and declining population.
Emigration has risen in a country already struggling with a declining population.
McGovern convened the U.S. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, examining how the American diet might be contributing to declining population health.
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Though the state's declining population lost two of its votes in the Electoral College -- it will only have 21 in the coming election -- Pennsylvania packs enough of a punch to make or break a presidential campaign.
Russia, thanks to windfalls from oil revenues from its three state owned oil giants Gazprom, Lukoil and Rosneft coupled with a declining population will help the government meet its goal of eradicating its deficit by 2015.
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The reason for this, however, is that under democracy a country with a declining population, a frighteningly high rate of birth defects, crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating schools might find a better use for taxpayers' money than pouring it into Mr Surkov's Silicon Valley dreams.
Faced with increasing competition for a declining student population, a branded offering could make a huge difference.
While Japanese alarmists blame a lack of competitiveness, the fact is that Japan's working-age population is declining, and within that population the proportion of workers willing to do manual jobs is also falling.
Anyway, retirement ages can be lifted to increase the supply of labour even when the population is declining.
Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.
There is this "other" economy with high unemployment and a very low and still-declining employment-to-population ratio.
Funds from the campaign will be used to protect its elephants, whose population has been declining rapidly because of the ivory poaching.
In fact, before the end of the 21st century, global population will be declining because birth rates will be less than the so-called replacement level, which is currently about 2.1 children per woman.
In many nations of the European Union, the chickens are coming home to roost as what has been in some nations a decades-long bid to offset declining birthrates among the native population by importing immigrant laborers transforms the host countries.
Newquay Zoo have bred the mammals since 2004 providing an 'insurance population' for the declining numbers.
Meanwhile, the city's population has fallen, declining to 59, 515 in 2010, a 10.3% drop from 10 years earlier, according to the U.S. Census.
This, indeed, is the main reason Europe's population has not yet started declining.
Meanwhile, as Japan's teenage population dwindles each year from declining birthrates, private high schools are turning to fashion consultants to help keep up their enrollment numbers.
" The expert attributed Microsoft's declining image among certain segments of the Chinese population to "a combination of paranoia on the Microsoft side and sensitivities on the Chinese side.
Although the mortality rate is predicted to continue declining, due to a growing and ageing population the number of deaths is expected to rise to about 182, 000 deaths by 2025.
In contrast, Europe may be able to maintain a steady level of prosperity--even with lower growth, since its population will be either stagnant or declining--at least until the looming costs of maintaining a welfare state impose onerous economic burdens.
If Russia continues to make progress in reducing mortality and if not increasing fertility then at least preventing it from declining, it will likely be able to maintain its current population.
The Japanese auto market has already been declining steadily over many years due to its aging and shrinking population, rapid urbanization, leading to space constraints in many Japanese cities and high tax burden on car owners.
Three years ago, the Swiss Statistical Office calculated that, with declining birth rates, stabilising the level of immigration would cut the working population by almost one-third by 2050.
Arizona's Latino population has almost tripled in the past two decades, with the majority of whites declining from 72% to 57%.
Over time, the proportion of the population living in poverty, as measured by some objective and absolute standard, should be declining.
What's more, the parts of the world where populations are growing fastest are also those most vulnerable to climate change, and a rising population will exacerbate the consequences of global warming water shortages, mass migration, declining food yields.
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