Can you name the the countries where the population growth is negative? by nearlyextinct

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Negative Population Growth Quiz

by nearlyextinct

Created Oct 4, 2009 in Geography
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	Converge:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 02:22 GMT	5 points
	Great idea. Nice job.

	apchilds:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 03:20 GMT	11 points
	Would you consider listing the countries in order by rate of population growth? I don't think it would give anything away, and it would make guessing more interesting.

	nearlyextinct:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 03:33 GMT	8 points
	Good idea. I have changed it to be in order. I also added some bonuses.

	yashcmarathe:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 14:56 GMT	4 points
	Got all the European ones + Japan :D

	universallove:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 03:40 GMT	4 points
	Aww Montenegro......it's absolutely beautiful there!!!!

	RS89:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 05:43 GMT	6 points
	What's going on in Eastern Europe?

	Quizhappy:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 06:31 GMT	22 points
	@RS89: Not much, apparently. Fun quiz, by the way.

	blizzardman:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 07:34 GMT	2 points
	It is surprising to see so many old republics of the Soviet Union losing their populations. Very surprising.

	DragonNo4:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 07:40 GMT	14 points
	High rates of both emigration and abortion will do that to a country.

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	HiddenPalace:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 11:11 GMT	4 points
	Sub-replacement fertility is pretty much the norm in Europe and a few other places like Japan. In Western Europe, the population decline is being averted through immigration. In Eastern Europe, for the most part it isn't really being averted at all. Sad really.

	Troublemaker:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 14:18 GMT	26 points
	I've seen eastern european women, and let me tell you, that's ALL I'd be doing there was trying to further the species!

	Moldemort:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 17:06 GMT	8 points
	if it wasn't for immigration I think the UK and Poland figures would swap

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	Pit_trout:	Apr 8th, 2010 at 22:02 GMT	4 points
	@SoSoSmart: other way round: if it weren't growth, it wouldn't be negative! That is, you could look at these figures either as "negative growth rate" or "positive shrinkage rate". But "negative growth" is a useful way of looking at them, because it lets us see them in the same statistical picture as all the other countries that have positive growth rates...

	Pyrophorus:	Apr 13th, 2010 at 15:24 GMT	4 points
	Presumably in Swaziland it's a combination of AIDS and "let's get the heck out of here"?

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Nov 30th, 2010 at 23:05 GMT	16 points
	Is someone breeding in Vatican City that I'm not aware of?

	LinuxLinus:	Dec 1st, 2010 at 00:37 GMT	-1 points
	My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 7th, 2011 at 14:36 GMT	10 points
	nearlyextinct creates a quiz on negative population growth. Appropriate, no?

	balatjr:	Jan 8th, 2011 at 23:07 GMT	1 point
	Interesting that Bosnia and Herzegovina, which in another quiz seems to have been among those that lost the greatest percentage of its population over time, has a growing population according to this page. I guess the 40% of the country that left is being replaced rapidly.

	cuendillar:	Jan 17th, 2011 at 16:37 GMT	6 points
	That's actually not so surprising. Much of Bosnia's former decline in population was due to the war. Now that the situation is more stable, people start to return home again.

	tulliuscicero:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 12:51 GMT	-2 points
	Italy? Seriously? Given that the Italians are generally considered the world's sexiest nationality, I'd have definitely not guessed them, regardless of an aging population.

	Hejman:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 15:50 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz, but I'm perplexed about one thing- the numbers don't match the source you have listed. Most of the numbers here are slightly off from those on the source page and there are countries on the source list (Guyana, South Africa) that aren't on here at all. It looks like the numbers in the quiz are from 2009 and the link is 2010. Is that right?

	Hejman:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 18:29 GMT	1 point
	D'oh! Just now noticed that this quiz was contributed in 2009, so obviously it uses 2009 data not the 2010 data that the source line now links to. Interesting, though, that two other countries have joined the list.

	mikeeo620:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 18:13 GMT	-1 points
	I think the CIA may not be so intelligent...

	spoyledbratt:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 09:34 GMT	1 point
	From Wikipedia: Some countries experience negative population growth, especially in Eastern Europe mainly due to low fertility rates, high death rates and emigration. In Southern Africa, growth is slowing due to the high number of HIV-related deaths. Some Western Europe countries might also encounter negative population growth. Japan's population began decreasing in 2005.

	erz02006:	Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:07 GMT	2 points
	I know you're just going by your source but many of these places are not considered countries by most sporcle quizzes (Saint Pierre, Cook Islands.) That kind of threw me off when I was selecting countries to guess.

	Acid_Snow:	Apr 1st, 2012 at 23:49 GMT	1 point
	We (US) own the Northern Marianas, France has St Pierre et Miquelon, and New Zealand has the Cook Islands. The Factbook has stats for such departments, but they are not 'countries' per se.