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.
歐洲現在是名副其實的「老世界」（old world，又稱舊世界，與新世界美洲相對——譯者注）。如果沒有外來移民，歐洲的人口將會縮減。在歐盟內，沒有一個國家的出生率足夠抵消死亡率。克羅埃西亞——歐盟的最新成員國——已將扭轉人口下降列爲其作爲歐盟輪值主席國的核心綱領之一。許多東歐與南歐國家的人口都在下降，原因是人口外流，而且死亡率高於出生率。
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