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英语翻译The world's populationcontinues to grow.There now are ab

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The world's populationcontinues to grow.There now are about 4 billion of us on earth.That could reach 6 billionby the end of the century and 11 billion in a further 75 years.Experts havelong been concerned about such a growth.Where will we find the food,water,jobs,houses,schools and health care for all these people?
A major new study shows that the situationmay be changing.A large and rapid drop in the world's birth rate has takenplace during the past 10 years.Families generally are smaller now than theywere a few years ago.It is happening in both developing and industrialnations.
Researchers said they found a number ofreasons for this.More men and women are waiting longer to get married and areusing birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy.Morewomen are going to school or working at jobs away from home instead of havingchildren.And more governments,especially in developing nations,now supportfamily planning programs to reduce population growth.
China is one of the nations that havemade great progress in reducing its population growth.China hasalready cut its rate of population growth by about one half since 1970.
Each Chinese family is now urged to have nomore than one child.And the hope is to reach a zero population growth with thetotal number of births equaling the total number of deaths by the year 2000.
Several nations in Europe already havefewer births than deaths.Experts said that these nations could face a seriousshortage of workers in the future.And the persons who are working could facemuch higher taxes to help support the growing number of retired people.
世界人口正在持续增长.现在地球上大约有40亿.本世纪可能会达到60亿,并且可能在接下来的75年中达到110亿.专家们长期关注着人口增长.哪里能找到食物,水,工作,住房,学校和医疗来提供给这么多人呢?
一项新的研究表明情形或许正在改变.过去的10年中,世界的出生率大幅下降.家庭规模一般都比以前减小.在发展中国家和工业化国家都是这样.
研究人员说,他们发现了很多导致这种现象的原因.更多的男性和女性晚婚和使用节育的设备和方法,以防止或推迟怀孕.更多女性在上学或者工作而不是在家里养孩子.而且更多的政府,特别是在发展中国家,已经支持规划家庭的方案,以降低人口增长.
中国是在降低人口增长取得了很大进步的国家之一.自1970至今,中国已经削减了其人口增长率约一半.
每个中国家庭现在都被敦促不能超过一个孩子.而且还有希望在2000年使出生率等于死亡率.
已经有几个欧洲国家的出生率低于死亡率了.专家表示,这些国家可能面临劳动力的严重不足.而工作的人们将面临更高的税收来平衡持续增长的退休人士的数目.
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