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- From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal F Lillywhite)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:43:48 GMT
- References: <JEFFK.92Nov17103207@dosXX.med.utah.edu> <10776@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <Bxw5LE.ErA@rice.edu>
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- In article <Bxw5LE.ErA@rice.edu> sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes) writes:
-
- >According to the CIA World Fact Book, available electronically via Project
- >Gutenberg, the United States' total fertility rate is 1.8 children born per
- >woman as of 1991. (The net migratation rate, according to this source, is
- >2 migrants per 1,000 population as of 1991.)
-
- Interesting, especially if we do a bit of arithmetic on these
- numbers. If we assume the average woman lives 80 years this is 160
- immigrants per 1000 population during her lifetime. Approximately
- half the population is female giving 160 immigrants per 500 females
- or 0.32 average immigrants per female over her lifetime. Adding
- this to the 1.8 average children she bears we get 2.12 new additions
- to the population for each female over her lifetime. Since I don't
- remember the exact replacement rate needed I'm not sure if this
- represents positive or negative population growth, but it must be
- close to the borderline. A 5.66% death rate of females prior to
- maturity would put it at exactly flat growth. Of course I am
- assuming an average lifetime for adult females which may not be
- correct but I think we are in the ballpark. Immigration rates of
- course fluctuate quite a bit so I don't think we are going to get an
- exact answer anyway.
-