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The comforting news is, however, that the Irish population, like that of Britain, France, Scandinavia and the US, is projected to keep on growing. For a country to reproduce itself, it requires the average woman to have 2.1 babies. Iceland is the only European country meeting that threshold, but Ireland is very close behind

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