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The population of Europe: yesterday and today
At the beginning of our era, Europe was, by modern standards, a fairly sparsely populated continent. And this despite the fact that some of its countries, especially Greece and the Roman Empire, were the center of world civilization, culture and science.
The population of Europe for a long time grew very slowly, to which the blame was endless wars, short life expectancy and high infant mortality. Of course, the level of medicine of those times was generally not very high, in addition, the services of qualified doctors, as a rule, were available primarily to wealthy people, which contributed to the overall picture.
Over the next 20 years, the continent continued to grow in demographic growth, giving the continent another 70 million people. He slowed down because of the huge human losses in World War II. But after a while, in the 60's, the so-called "baby boom" began. This coincided with the time of revision of traditional values. However, already in the seventies the birth rate began to decline sharply. And in the 90's, in almost all European countries, mortality began to exceed the birth rate. However, life expectancy did not cease to increase.
As for the level of fertility, only in Albania, Ireland and Iceland this indicator still stands at the level of population reproduction. In other countries, each woman, on average, gives birth to fewer than two children. Its role here is played by the rejection of traditional values and the principle of "first a career - then a family". In general, the indigenous population of Europe is dying out, and this process, according to experts, can not be stopped. Therefore, these demographic losses are compensated by immigration from "non-white" countries. Most "new Europeans" are Muslims from the Maghreb, Africa, the Arab States and Turkey. Many believe that through such massive immigration, Europe in the middle of this century will become an Islamic continent. This view is justified by statistical data, because in general Muslim women give birth to many more children than German women, English women or French women. Therefore, in the next few decades Europe will be a completely different continent.
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