After all, Turkey has a much younger population profile than most of Europe.

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Looking back to 1996, it is encouraging that the educational, age and gender profile of the online population is approaching that of the U.S. More distressing is the lack of change in the income profile.

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Over the past century, the age profile of the population has become much older, with the proportion aged under 15 falling from 32% in 1911 to 16% last year, while the proportion aged 65 and over has increased from 5% to 17%.

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Mortality rates are calculated by examining how many people would be expected to die, taking into account age and disease profile of the local population.

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Mortality rates are calculated by looking at the number of people that would be expected to die when taking into account the age and disease profile of the local population.

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Death rates are calculated by looking at the number of people that would be expected to die when taking into account the age and disease profile of the local population.

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Recently, a number of senior European politicians have spoken out against allowing Turkey, a Muslim state, into the EU. In Rotterdam, the local government is now explicitly trying to change the racial profile of the Dutch city, whose population is projected to be 57% of foreign origin by 2017.

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