Map: Where Europe is growing and where it is shrinking - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/23/map-where-europe-is-growing-and-where-it-is-shrinking/?tid=a_inl
A lot has been written about Europe’s shrinking population. Britain’s Telegraph, for instance, once described how demographics show Europe is “slowly dying.” Just this year, Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute, predicted a “Europe in decline” because of its low birthrates.
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An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows Europe’s Population Shifts From 2001 to 2011 - CityLab
►http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/06/incredibly-detailed-map-europes-population-shifts/396497
http://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/citylab/2015/06/Screen_Shot_2015_06_22_at_3.51.05_PM/lead_large.png Suburbanization intensifies in Eastern Europe
Look at the Eastern section of the map and you’ll see that many cities, including Prague, Bucharest, and the Polish cities of Poznań and Wrocław, are ringed with a deep red circle that shows a particularly high rise in average annual population of 2 percent or more. As this paper from Krakow’s Jagiellonian University’s Institute of Geography notes, Eastern cities began to spread out in the new millennium because it was their first chance to do so in decades.
