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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
That’s precisely the reason their recovery is even more impressive: their population is old, growing even older, and therefore deaths rates are much higher than elsewhere.
Growing from -3% to 0% with much worse demographics is an accomplishment. The US, for example, plunged from 10% to 6% over the same period. They are going against the flow. Kept this trend, they are heading to converge to the national average.
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My hometown is one that has consecutive population loss which has more or less stabilized recently. Not losing or gaining but flat. They area is still economically depressed and still doing worse than the rest of the country on average. Even raw population stats look ok on paper.