Map : Where Europe is growing and where it is shrinking

Map: Where Europe is growing and where it is shrinking - The Washington Post
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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
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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.

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Map: Where Europe is growing and where it is shrinking - The Washington Post
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However, new research, released by German researchers this week, reveals a far more nuanced picture of which parts of Europe have shrunk over the first decade of this century and which have grown.

Some of the data collected by Germany’s federal institute for construction research offers stunning insights. The institute’s map is one of the first attempts to compare demographic trends all over Europe between 2001 and 2011. Areas colored green had an average annual increase in population over that time span, and areas colored brown experienced a decline in population. In areas colored white, no significant change occurred.

These are the key findings:

These European cities are becoming more American

According to the researchers, many of Europe’s largest city centers have seen their populations dwindle between 2001 and 2011 as more people moved away and birthrates went up in metropolitan areas and suburbs where housing is more affordable.

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Unlike in many other nations, France’s population is expanding above E.U. average in rural areas. German researcher Volker Schmidt-Seiwert told WorldViews: “The country’s excellent transport system might help explain why families deliberately decide to stay in rural areas, instead of moving into cities.”

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