Demographer: Estonia and Latvia became a leader in reducing residents
over the past 24 years the population of Latvia has decreased on 18% - this is the fourth in the world for the reporting period. As a percentage of more than Latvia, " died out " only Bulgaria, Estonia and the cook Islands, informs portal Delfi.
specialist Michael McDonough published on the portal businessinsider. Com information on the global demography in the world. For a reference point of growth/decline of the residents in some areas he took 1990 - one year before the Soviet Union disintegrated and collapsed Eastern block. Just in these countries over the next two decades, most dropped the population in percentage terms. The post-Soviet countries and Eastern Europe to date is characterized by low fertility and high emigration. For comparison: population of Latvia in 1990 amounted to 2, 6 million people, And currently - 2, 02 million So, for 24 years, the number of population of Latvia has decreased by more than 0, 5 mln, I.e. by 18%.
The more high indexes have Estonia (-19%) and Bulgaria (-21%). The unconditional leader of the ranking are the cook Islands are a small archipelago with the same name is a self-governing state formation in free Association with New Zealand in the southern Pacific ocean in Polynesia. Currently, the population of the cook Islands is about fifteen thousand People, since 1990 the number of the population of the archipelago has decreased by 44%.
in the top-10 rating except 4 the above mentioned countries on the reduction of population in percentage terms for 24 years Also includes Moldova (-17%), Ukraine (-14%), Bosnia/Herzegovina (-10%), Armenia (-9%), Georgia (-9%), Albania and Serbia (-7%).
Also decreased the population in such countries as Belarus (-6%), Lithuania, Romania, Guyana (-5%), Hungary, Russia, St. Vincent/Grenadines (-4%), Trinidad and Tobago (-2%), Croatia (-1%). In Slovenia the number of the population remained the same as in 1994-m
a small profit on the increase in residents are Poland ( 1%), Germany ( 2%), the Czech Republic and Japan (3%), according to the statistical data Bloomberg.
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