Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations
by barry-cotter on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:25PM
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zeteo Muslim immigration into France accounts for the high fertility.
The second development to note is that INED, France's National Institute of Demographic Studies, has done some detailed research and concluded that France's immigrant population is responsible for only 5 percent of the rise in the birthrate and that France's population would be rising anyway even without the immigrant population.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2008/04/30/Walke...
Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations
by zeteo on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:41PM
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France is an interesting and peculiar case, with lots of natalist policies and with laws impeding the collection of statistics based on religion and ethnic origin. I'd love to see the original INED study, though, if you have a link.
Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations
by barry-cotter on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:53PM
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I can't, unfortunately. Here's the INED publications webpage
http://www.ined.fr/en/resources_documentation/publications/d...
It might be one of the "Recent Demographic Developments in France"
To this decades-old immigration that is still growing strong, we must add recent immigrants, who are much more religious and have much higher fertility rates.