It's fascinating watching some of the simple brains at work on this blog.
Calculated strictly from the death/birth rate
The sad thing, despite some the faux lip service from some. Most take a ghoulish joy in these kinds of statistics.
It's just super weird looking at the local news on the home front of various gE'ers and then asking why they seem so concerned about what's going on here given the mountain of crap going on right outside their doors.