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Table 3-1
Demographics
Percent
Country or
Percent
T Total
Nat.
Death
Population
Birth
Rate
(millions)
Fertility
<15/>65
Change
Inc.
Rate
Region
By 2050
Mid-2009
Y ears Old
Per 1,000
Rate
Per 1,000
Rate %
Australia
21.9
14
55
7
2.0
0.7
19/30
Canada
33.7
11
24
7
1.6
0.4
17/14
U.K.
61.8
13
24
9
1.9
0.4
18/16
U.S.A.
306.8
14
43
8
2.1
0.6
20/13
South Asia
Bangladesh
162.2
23
37
7
2.5
1.6
32/4
Bhutan
0.7
25
46
8
3.1
1.7
32/5
India
1,171.0
23
49
7
3.1
1.6
32/5
Maldives
0.3
22
51
4
2.3
1.8
30/5
Nepal
27.5
29
67
9
3.1
2.1
37/4
Pakistan
180.8
30
85
7
4.0
2.3
38/4
Sri Lanka
20.5
19
24
7
2.4
1.2
26/7
East Asia
China
1,331.4
12
7
1.6
0.5
8
19/8
Hong Kong SAR
*
7.0
11
25
6
1.1
0.5
13/13
Macao SAR
*
0.6
9
53
3
1.0
0.5
13/7
Japan
127.6
9
9
-25
1.4
0.0
13/23
North Korea
22.7
16
10
01
2.0
0.5
22/9
South Korea
48.7
9
5
-13
1.2
0.4
17/10
Mongolia
2.7
24
48
6
2.6
1.8
33/4
Taiwan
23.1
8
17/10
-7.0
6
1.0
0.2
Southeast Asia
Brunei
0.4
16
64
3
1.7
1.3
26/4
Cambodia
14.8
25
61
8
3.0
1.7
35/3
Indonesia
243.3
21
41
6
2.5
1.5
29/6
Laos
6.3
28
70
7
3.5
2.1
39/4
Malaysia
28.3
21
43
5
2.6
1.6
32/4
Myanmar (Burma)
50.0
21
10
27
2.3
1.1
27/5
Philippines
92.2
26
63
5
3.3
2.1
35/4
Singapore
5.1
10
10
4
1.3
0.6
18/9
Thailand
67.8
15
9
1.8
0.6
8
22/7
Timor-Leste
1.1
40
9
184
6.5
3.1
45/3
Vietnam
87.3
17
29
5
2.1
1.2
26/7
* Special Autonomous Regions of China
Source: Population Data Sheet 2009. Population Reference Bureau.
Pakistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, and Timor-Leste
are among these. Some, such as Myanmar and North
Korea, have higher death rates (DRs) than other countries.
The difference between these two measures is the natural
increase rate (NIR). While Timor-Leste has a high BR
(40/1,000), it has a much lower DR (9/1,000). This re-
sults in a very high NIR (3.1%).
T Total fertility rates (TFRs)
have fallen quite rapidly
over the past 20 years. In Asian countries (excluding the
Middle East), women had an average of 5.82 children be-
tween 1950 and 1955. By 1980-1985, the TFR had
dropped to 3.54. From 2000 to 2005, the TFR had fallen
to 2.39. T To illustrate further, Bangladesh' s TFR was 7 in
1975 and is now 2.5.
What does this mean in terms of population growth?
T To answer that question we have the notion of
replace-
ment fertility rate (RFR)
. Replacement fertility rate
means that a population is growing just enough to
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