Europe is earning its moniker as the old world. Without immigration the bloc’s population would be shrinking. No country in the EU has a birth rate high enough to replace deaths. Croatia, the newest member, has made reversing population falls into a central plank of its current presidency of the EU. Many countries in eastern and southern Europe are now in decline, thanks to a combination of emigration and higher death rates than birth rates.
欧洲现在是名副其实的“老世界”（old world，又称旧世界，与新世界美洲相对——译者注）。如果没有外来移民，欧洲的人口将会缩减。在欧盟内，没有一个国家的出生率足够抵消死亡率。克罗地亚——欧盟的最新成员国——已将扭转人口下降列为其作为欧盟轮值主席国的核心纲领之一。许多东欧与南欧国家的人口都在下降，原因是人口外流，而且死亡率高于出生率。
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