||1:The financial crisis abruptly turned the boom to bust. Countries in the European Union delivered 5,469,000 babies in 2008 but only 5,075,000 in 2013—a drop of over 7%.||2:That was too much for Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies nappies, which announced in 2012 that it would pull out of most of Europe.||3:In America the fertility rate fell from a peak of 2.12 in 2007 to 1.86 in 2014.||4:Ken Johnson, a demographer at the University of New Hampshire, estimated that America was missing 2.3m babies.

||1:金融危机突然地将婴儿潮转变为生育低谷。在2008年，欧盟国家共有5，469,000名婴儿出生，而在2013年，仅有5,075,000名——下跌超过7%。||2:这对于好奇纸尿布的制造商金佰利克拉克而言，实在是太多了。金佰利在2012年宣布将退出大部分欧洲市场。||3:在美国，生育率从2007年的顶点值2.12跌至2014年的1.86。||4:新罕布尔什大学的人口学家肯·约翰逊估计，美国已流失230万婴儿。

||1:If some of the international trends are hard to fathom, so is the strange uniformity within countries.||2:Trude Lappegard, a Norwegian demographer , says that her country’s baby bust, which has been going on for six years, might be easy to explain if it had hit one group especially hard.||3:Instead, women of all ages and all levels of education are having fewer children

||1:如果说一些国际趋势很难准确探寻，那么对于国际间奇怪的一致性也很难了解清楚。||2:一位来自挪威名叫褚德兰培格的人口统计学家说道，该国的生育低谷已经持续六年，这可能很容易的解释成是否是特别严重的冲击了某个阶层的女性。||3:但恰恰相反，不同年龄层及受教育程度不同的女性所生育的孩子都越来越少。

"Now, foreigners come to Hong Kong to build a life, " says Paul Yip, a demographer at the University of Hong Kong.

“现在，外国人来香港建立他们的生活，”香港大学的人口统计学家PaulYip说。

Peter Francese, a demographer at Ogilvy &Mather, an advertising agency, thinks the 2010 census will permanently change marketing.

PeterFrancese，广告代理公司Ogilvy&Mather的人口统计学家，认为2010年人口普查将永久性地改变市场。

"Anything over 50 percent is impressive, " said William H. Frey, a sociologist and demographer at the Brookings Institution.

布鲁克林学院的社会学家和人口学家威廉姆·H·费雷表示，任何事物的变动只要超过了50%，就会引人注目。

For me, as a demographer , the key variable is not the per capita gross domestic product but the literacy rate.

对我这样一个人口学家来说，最关键的变量不是人均GDP而是识字率。

Shigesato Takahashi, a senior government demographer , says it will "rock the foundations" of Japan’s social-security system.

高桥重乡（ShigesatoTakahashi）是政府的一名高级人口统计学家，他表示这个问题将“动摇”日本社会保障体系的基础。

Male preference in South Korea "is over, " says Monica Das Gupta, a demographer and Asia expert at the World Bank.

莫妮卡，是人口统计学家，也是世界银行的亚洲专家，她说南韩偏爱男性的时代“结束了”。

Professor Li Jianmin, a demographer at Nankai University, warns of the outlook for childless males.

南开大学人口统计学家李建民教授警告说，无子女单身男性的晚景堪忧。

Joel Kotkin, a demographer , points out that California has always had fires during dry years, at least since the time of the Spaniards.

人口统计学家约尔·柯特金指出，加州在干旱年份总是有火灾，这至少始于西班牙人统治时期。

This suggests they enjoy higher socioeconomic status, Mr. Frey, the demographer , said.

人口学家弗雷说，这样他们可以享有一种更高的社会经济地位。

"He smelled the air and is making a move, " says one demographer .

一位人口统计学专家说“他嗅到了形势并做出了动作。”

Among those who share Li’s opinion, Liang Zhongtang, a demographer at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, is probably the most vocal.

在那些与李的观点有同感的人们中，梁中堂，在上海社科院的一名人口统计学家，或许是声音最响亮的。

The new figure is six times the intermarriage rate of roughly 2% in 1960, says senior demographer Jeff Passel, the report’s lead author.

这个新的数据六倍于1960年约2%的异族婚姻率。高级人口统计学家、该报告的主要作者JeffPassel如是说。