Sentences with phrase «by high birthrates»

But the momentum of population growth caused by high birthrates in the recent past means that the population will grow to a peak of about 1.2 billion or more before it begins to fall.

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Increasingly, that growth will be driven by millennials, the oldest of whom have lifted the annual birthrate for women 30 to 34 to the highest level since 1964, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

In a report released this month, the Southern Education Foundation says the demographic shift was fueled by a combination of factors: an influx of Latinos and members of other ethnic groups, a return of many African - American families to the South, and higher birthrates among both blacks and Latinos than among whites.

(from The Boston Globe) Already facing enrollment declines due to declining birthrates and high tuitions, some imperiled small colleges are facing a new worry: Existing students are being aggressively recruited by other schools.

Egypt's current birthrate, though still relatively high by world standards, is less than half the rate of the early 1990s.

Confronted by the grave warnings thus issuing from courts of great pan-European authority, citizens of countries whose Muslim population is increasing very rapidly by immigration and a relatively high birthrate may ask themselves whether it is prudent, or just to the children and grandchildren of everyone in their country, to permit any further migratory increase in that population, or even to accept the presence of immigrant non-citizen Muslims without deliberating seriously about a possible reversal — humane and financially compensated for and incentivised — of the inflow.