As China's farming population declines, agricultural modernization is needed to enhance productivity.

随着中国农业口减少, 农业现代化就需要提高生产力。

One reason for the population loss is Japan's high cost of living.

日口减少的原因之一是高昂的生活成。

And in the very long term it means a smaller country.

从长远来讲，这会导致国家口减少。

It found that immigration reversed what would have been major population decreases in 18 cities.

调查发现，移民扭转了18个城市的主要口减少的趋势。

Immigration is the reason why the U.S. will not suffer a population loss in 2024.

移民是美国在2024年不会遭受口减少的原因。

Shrinking populations will suppress economic growth and foster unrest.

口减少将抑制增长并造成动荡。

In Weequahic, by contrast, deindustrialisation led to depopulation.

相反，在Weequahic，遏制工业化导致口减少。

The areas of the island that were most severely affected by the famine and depopulation were in the west and the south, where the Irish language had previously been more dominant over English.

岛上受饥荒和口减少影响最严重的地区在西部和南部，在那里，爱尔兰语比英语更占主导地位。

And what's more, although fewer people are hungry thanks to their food policies, changes to lifestyles led to high rates of obesity, which could increase the likelihood of developing NCDs like heart disease and cancer.

更重要的是，尽管由于食品政策，饥饿口减少了，但生活方式的改变导致肥胖率上升，这增加患心脏病和癌症等非传染疾病的。

Retiree Petrini hopes the treasures will bring " jobs, culture and knowledge" to his village, which is struggling with depopulation like much of rural Italy.

退休员彼得里尼希望这些宝藏为他的村庄带来“就业机会、文化和知识”，与意大利大部分农村地区一样，这个村子也在努力应对口减少的问题。

Squeezed between two totalitarian neighbours, Poland lost 16% of its population, about half of them Jews who were part of Hitler's final solution.

夹在两个极权主义国家之间的波兰口减少了16%，其中约一半是犹太，那是希特勒的“最终方案”要解决的部分目标。

One study determined that hordes of zombies would whittle down earth's population to just a few hundred survivors in only 100 days.

一项研究表明，成群结队的僵尸将在短短100天内将地球上的口减少到只剩几百个幸存者。

This means that states that have grown may get more representatives and states that have shrunk (or become smaller) get fewer representatives.

这就意味着口增长的州会得到更多的众议员、口减少的州就会得到更少的众议员。

Since climate change is caused by human activities, it seems common sense that fewer people would mean lower carbon emissions.

由于气候变化是由类活动引起的，似乎口减少意味着碳排放减少。

Computer simulations suggested that the likelihood of such a rapid change happening by chance, even in a diminished population, was tiny.

计算机模拟表明，即使在口减少的情况下，如此迅速的变化偶然发生的很小。

But economists say the drop is also due to a decline in its population and slowing productivity and competitiveness.

但学家表示，日排名下降也是由于口减少、生产率和竞争力放缓所致。

The disease reduced Europe's population by around a third and caused major changes in the medieval social structure.

这种疾病使欧洲口减少了约三分之一，并导致中世纪社会结构发生重大变化。

A shrinking world is in our future, but obviously some places are much closer than others.

口减少的世界是我们都要面对的未来，但是显然有些国家要更紧迫。

Well, according to recent data, the number of people living in extreme poverty has halved in recent decades. More people own a car and a mobile phone.

数据显示，近几十年里，生活在极度贫困水平的口减少了一半。越来越多的买得起汽车和移动电话了。

Europe will be the only region to shrink, with the biggest falls in former Soviet countries.

欧洲是唯一口缩减的地区，其中前苏联国家口减少最多。