What does he mean when someone says, "Switzerland has a predicted negative population growth."
2007-01-05 02:54:16 · 13 answers · asked by ☺ Joel ☺ 1 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Over a period of time, the population will decline.
The U.S. has a positive population growth. Each year we get more populous.
If Switzerland has a negative growth, then it is getting smaller. Sometimes this is intentional (such as in the case of China, which has a limit of one child per family) or unintentional.
It is usually caused by more people leaving the country and/or dying than there are entering the country and/or being born. Over a period of time, Switzerland will find itself with a smaller population than it has now.
2007-01-05 03:03:36 · answer #1 · answered by T J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, many European countries are also experiencing negative population growth. People are chosing to have fewer and fewer children as women become more financially independent. The problem is that the average age of the population is increasing, so there are more people entering retirement, and this causes output to fall as there aren't as many people working. But the drop in output isn't necessarily a bad thing since 1) people are focusing on quality and not quantity of children and 2) there are fewer people consuming resources.
2016-03-29 08:57:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be a way of describing a situation in which the rate of new births was lower than the death rate Negative just means that there isn't any growth in the population, and it may even be declining. More deaths than births would do that, or, of course, people leaving the area. But usually it's associated with the birth/death ratio in that particular place.
2007-01-05 03:01:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correct answers above ... "Negative growth" is just a mathematical term for a decline, shrinkage. If population increased 1%, that would be growth. If it falls 1%, that's negative growth.
People like me get in the habit of analyzing a certain trait -- "growth" -- and prefer to just apply positive and negative numbers to it, as opposed to changing the concept in question to "decline" or "shrinking".
2007-01-05 04:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Population reduction. The number of people living there is going
down instead of up.
2007-01-05 03:03:26 · answer #5 · answered by Alion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it mean that there are more deaths than births in their population.
2007-01-05 02:56:14 · answer #6 · answered by I Might Even Be a Rock Star... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More people are dying than being born.
For instance, if 100,000 people die per year and only 90,000 are born, then that would be negative poplulation growth.
2007-01-05 02:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by bashnick 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
when the death rate is higher than the birth rate, causing the population to decrease over time.
2007-01-05 02:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by Wesley C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The people they lose through death and emigration aren't replaced by immigration and births.
2007-01-05 02:55:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are dying faster than babies are being born
2007-01-05 02:56:01 · answer #10 · answered by jdog33 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋