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Lcchang Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Replacement

I think people in developed countries are concerned about their aging population; their declining birthrates. Denmark apparently has a birthrate of 1.9 per thousand or whatever which is quite high per family. I don?t know what the number is, but replacement is two so at 1.9 they?re not bad.

I am not sure what "replacement" means in this passage. Can anyone help? Thank.

  

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Replacement refers to maintaining the population size. If two parents have two children, then in theory they have perfectly replaced themselves in the population when they die.

— Mister Micawber

  • Replacement refers to maintaining the population size.
  • If two parents have two children, then in theory they have perfectly replaced themselves in the population when they die.
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Replacement refers to maintaining the population size. If two parents have two children, then in theory they have perfectly replaced themselves in the population when they die.
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I see. Thanks a lot.
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