The last time it was above the replacement rate of two was in 1976.
But Phillip Watts, head of exploration and production, boldly reported a three-year average replacement rate of 102%.
The U.S. has a total fertility rate (TFR) of 2.0 nearly the replacement rate with Hispanic immigrants leading in birth rates.
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Western European countries have low fertility rates, below the replacement rate of 2.1.
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Africa has even higher TFRs, with many of its countries between 4 and 7, far higher than the replacement rate of 2.1.
The American fertility rate is around the replacement rate of 2.1, compared with 1.4 for Germany and Italy, where populations are in decline.
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Boeing said while the replacement rate was "slightly higher" than usual, the changes were "routine maintenance" and were not due to any safety issues.
Overall fertility has fallen to roughly 1.5, well below replacement rate and all but guaranteeing a demographic-based economic crisis a decade or two sooner.
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The natural birth rate in the USA has been below natural replacement rate for nearly a generation, and the USA has relied on massive immigration to continue population growth.
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During the existence of the coercive program China's birth rate declined from 2.9 births per female to around 1.6 or 1.7 today, figures well below the replacement rate of 2.1.
In the process, the U.S. fertility rate dropped from over 2.1 births per woman in 2007 to 1.9 last year, below replacement rate for the first time since the mid-1980s.
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Britain's Pensions Commission has used a net replacement rate of 80% for workers on average incomes as a rough guide to whether they will have enough to live on in retirement.
Tomorrow we fall below the replacement rate.
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The pattern of swift, uninterrupted decline is now taken as the norm: the UN uses it to project a worldwide convergence towards the replacement rate of fertility (2.1, the rate at which a population stabilises in the long term).
Singapore's total fertility rate, which represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years, has been below the population replacement rate for more than three decades.
Singapore's total fertility rate of 1.2, which represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years, has been below the population replacement rate for more than three decades.
Italians and Irish have been emigrating for centuries which is part of the reason why the birth rate in Italy is less than the replacement rate because who wants to stay in a place where there is little opportunity and there are no jobs?
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People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
This could be achieved through a cap-and-trade system by issuing each adult with 1.05 of a birth permit (ie, 2.1 permits per couple to achieve the replacement fertility rate) and allowing such permits to be tradable.
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One comfort, as my husband and I shop for cars, is the knowledge that even if the one we pick doesn't meet all of my patriotic specifications, at least we'll be filling it with an above-replacement-rate number of young Americans.
The U.S. replacement total fertility rate was higher than 2.1 children per woman in the 1800s and early 1900s due to childhood mortality.
More importanly, Russian fertility has remained well below the 2.1 rate required for replacement.
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Although America benefits greatly from immigration, its fertility rate has actually consistently been sub-replacement for almost all of the past 20 years.
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Manufacturing firms recorded both redundancies and the non-replacement of voluntary leavers over the month, although the overall rate of job losses was said to be "marginal".
The fertility rate has risen to 1.66, still below the replacement level but higher than the national average.
Larry Summers, Barack Obama's main economic adviser, has noted that current annualised vehicle sales of about 9m are well below the 14m necessary for replacement and rising population, while annualised housing starts are about a quarter of the rate needed to support the forming of new households.
Mu Guangzong of Renmin University of China in Beijing says that even without it the fertility rate in big cities would only be around 1.5, well below the replacement threshold (but higher than 1.0 as it now is in Beijing and Shanghai).
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