SPECIAL EDITION: WORLD on the MOVE : EUROPE:
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* Ireland is the only European Community country experiencing a net population loss through migration, with a 1989 rate of 11.6 emigrants per 1,000 population.
* Some 8.2 million of the 345 million residents of the 12 member states of the European Community are non-EC natives, according to Eurostat, the EC statistics organization. More than half of those are from either Turkey, Algeria, Morocco or Yugoslavia.
* Children of immigrants represent 10% of Europeans under the age of 20, according to the International Labor Office. They are referred to as the continent’s demographic time bomb.
* In France, 6.3% of these children of immigrants are in remedial classes at the secondary level compared to 2.1% of French students.
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