> Ok, I knew that. I guess I was thinking, to obtain a _global_ 
 > population decrease, some countries will have to have almost no 
 > births at all, to make up for those that aren't able to join the 
 > program. I'm assuming nearly all industrialized countries (those of 
 > us with computer networks, for example :) would need very low birth 
 > rates indeed, for a global negative population growth rate. The 
 > countries without education, transportation, and communications 
 > simply will not have negative population growth.
Understood. So as long as you understand that negative population growth does 
not have as its criteria, zero birth rate. The population of the Canadian 
province of Quebec (anglophone and francophone and combined) is undergoing 
negative growth and I can assure you that their birth rate is >> 0. Further, 
most of the world's population lies in less developed (cp. North America and 
Europe) nations where the death rate is >> than the industrialized nations 
like Canada and the US. Perhaps some out there could provide us with the 
current per annum birth rate and death rate in North America.
Cheers... Daniel
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