Europe
The average total fertility rate in the European Union (EU-27) has been calculated at 1.59 children per woman in 2009.
In the non-EU European post-Soviet states group, Russia has a TFR of 1.61 children per woman, Belarus 1.47.
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“Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator.”
—Marc Fumaroli (b. 1932)
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)