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The New York Times Magazine has a Europe-themed edition. I thought it would be interesting to look at the five big Western European nations in Google Data Explorer.
paraplanet · January 17, 2011 at 8:31 am
Seems like the five differ only on fertility rates, where they divide into two groups: France and UK (near replacement), versus Germany/Italy/Spain (well below replacement, around 1.4).
Why would they differ on this, if in the other economic factors they are so similar?
Clark · January 17, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Wow. I didn’t realize Great Britain was doing so well the past decade prior to the recession. Nor Italy for that matter. (I still tend to think of Italy as a train wreck – aided no doubt by what makes the news)
It’s interesting the infant mortality rate in GB is so much higher than the others.
NorfolkNeville · January 23, 2011 at 11:55 am
@paraplanet
Why the demographic difference in UK and France? BIG Muslim populations. The increase in the UK over the last decade roughly equates to the 1997-2010 Labour governments attempts to “drown the right in diversity”.