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Re:Europe's love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster by hugh4 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @03:25PM (#10405691)
Iceland is still breeding at a healthy yet sustainable 2.04 births per woman, actually.

Compare to 1.4 in Italy (and I thought they were Catholics!) or 1.38 in Germany.

Actually now I look it up the US is only 1.88 in the last stats that come up, so Iceland is out-breeding the US.

Edit: and while I don't know why I bother researching and typing these things since I inevitably wind up with negative karma the moment I suggest something not directly in line with HN herd opinion, I wish to add that the top-selling car in Iceland is the respectably mid sized Skoda Octavia.

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Re:Europe's love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster by dogma1138 on Saturday October 17, 2015 @03:46PM (#10405773)
2.04 births is not enough to sustain a healthy population either, it's not irreversible likes some mainland EU countries but it's nothing to boast about.

And it's also quite a sharp decline since the 80's and 70's for Iceland, just like for any other Western country.

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