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Originally Posted by topper
I do recall just recently some stats issued to show that UK East European birth rates were much higher than that. Also average birth rates are not really the answer given that the majority of recent immigrant population appears to go to defined places. There was a Channel 4 prog a couple of weeks ago and one area highlighted was around Boston Lincs where the veg growers there were using immigrant labour for picking . Other areas recently highlighted were in and around Slough and Cambridge
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East European birth rates are catastrophically low. Except from Albanians who have the highest birth rate in Europe, the rest of the countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) are facing huge demographic problems. The population of Estonia and Bulgaria fro example could decrease by half in the next 40 years.
The population of the East European countries is younger than the one of old Europe (average age 36.9 compared to 40)