Discussion 3 Questions to be answered and turned in at the beginning of Class

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1.     In what regions of the world are fertility rates above replacement level?  Where are they below replacement level?

 

 

2.  What are the causes of fertility decline? 

 

 

3.  What are the implications of population decline in the United States and Europe for issues of migration?

 

 

4.  What caused the decline in life expectancy in Russia and the other former Soviet Republics? 

 

 

5.  This article focuses largely upon fertility rates.  Would the article be as optimistic if it had focused upon rates of natural increase/decrease? 

 

 

 

6.  What is one issue or question on this reading that you would like discussed in class?