Some take an alarmist view of current demographic trends.
Current demographic dynamics — differential birthrates and the composition of immigration — favor racial and ethnic minorities.
A European Commission working document published in November 2007 concludes that "truly massive and increasing flows of young migrants would be required" to offset current demographic changes.
The resulting numbers are released without identifying individuals, and offer current demographic portraits of even the country's tiniest communities.
Not that the current demographic make-up of councillors necessarily stops them from doing a good job - many have buckets of experience and knowledge to inform their decisions.
In either case, current demographic trends suggest that, within a generation or two, the lands under Jewish control will contain fewer Jews than Arabs.
So the Society of Actuaries, a professional group that engages in research and education, convened a committee to prepare a new table, based on current demographic trends.
Because by 2010, if current demographic patterns hold, there will be more Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem than Jews.
On current demographic trends, by 2020 Turkey (now 67m-strong) may have more people than Germany (now 82m-strong but shrinking).
A Deutsche Bank report in 2002 calculated that, on current demographic trends, by 2050 there will be 75 pensioners for every 100 workers in the EU.
Meanwhile, North Dakota's government struggled to reverse current demographic trends by attempting to attract former residents back to the state to raise families.
