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- From: sbyrnes@rice.edu (Steven Byrnes)
- Subject: Re: Multiplying in the Backcountry (kids/population)
- In-Reply-To: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM's message of 17 Nov 92 21:14:52 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:58:25 GMT
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- On 17 Nov 92 21:14:52 GMT, Hal F Lillywhite said:
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- > The number we really need is fertility. Anybody have it? I think I
- > heard it is still below the replacement rate but can't document that.
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- 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.)
-
- Steven
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