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- From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal F Lillywhite)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
- Message-ID: <10782@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:49:23 GMT
- References: <Bxw5LE.ErA@rice.edu> <10780@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <Nov18.173330.55951@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Nov18.173330.55951@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
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- >If the statistics imply that the population is not growing, then
- >the statistics are OBVIOUSLY incorrect. Sheesh!
-
- I think you missed the point. Nobody disputes that population is
- growing now. We are in the echo of the baby boom, compounded by a
- high rate of immigration (much of it illegal). We can predict that
- the baby boom echo will go away. Immigration is less predictable.
- The whole thing came about when somebody claimed that the birth rate
- in this country is less than the replacement rate. That is quite
- true but by no means the only thing which governs population growth.
-
- Fertility rate is a good predictor of population growth over the
- long term in the absence of immigration. There will always be
- fluctuations in short term population growth. It would make no
- sense to apply a long term tool to short term questions.
-