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Beyond Friendship - The Future of Anglo-American Relations - Appendix One: Total Fertility Rates, Europe and America
by Robin Harris
May 24, 2006 |
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Total Fertility Rates, Europe and America


Austria

1.3 (2001)

Belgium

1.5 (1995)

Bulgaria

1.2 (2001)

Cyprus

1.6 (2000)

Czech Republic

1.1 (2001)

Denmark

1.7 (2001)

Estonia

1.3 (2001)

Finland

1.7 (2001)

France

1.8 (1999)

Germany

1.4 (2000)

Greece

1.3 (1999)

Hungary

1.3 (2001)

Iceland

2.1 (2000)

Ireland

2.0 (2001)

Italy

1.2 (2000)

Latvia

1.2 (2001)

Lithuania

1.3 (2001)

Luxembourg

1.7 (2001)

Malta

1.5 (2001)

Netherlands

1.7 (2001)

Norway

1.8 (2001)

Poland

1.3 (2001)

Portugal

1.5 (2001)

Romania

1.3 (2000)

Slovakia

1.2 (2001)

Spain

1.2 (2000)

Sweden

1.6 (2001)

Switzerland

1.4 (2001)

Turkey

2.5 (2000)

United Kingdom

1.6 (2000)

United States

2.1 (2000)

 

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Fertility Report 2003 (New York: United Nations, 2004).

 

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Dr. Robin Harris served during the 1980s as an adviser at the United Kingdom Treasury and Home Office, as Director of the Conservative Party Research Department, and as a member of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Downing Street Policy Unit. He continued to advise Lady Thatcher after she left office and has edited the definitive volume of her Collected Speeches. Dr. Harris is now an author and journalist. His Dubrovnik—A History was published by Saqi Books in 2003, and his biography of Talleyrand will be published by John Murray in the spring of 2007.

 
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