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Lesson 86 : Demographic issues Flashcards

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La démographie

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Demography

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Un démographe

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A demographer

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Démographique

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Demographic

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Les données démographiques

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Demographics

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Habiter / un habitant

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To inhabit / an inhabitant

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Habité / inhabité

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Inhabited / uninhabited

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Peuplé / dépeuplé

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Populated / depopulated

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Le dépeuplement

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Depopulation

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Dense -> densément / à forte densité

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Dense / densely

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La densité

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Density

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Rare

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Sparse

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Faiblement, à faible densité

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Sparsely

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Croitre / la croissance

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To grow / growth

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Le taux de natalité / le taux de mortalité

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The birth rate / the death rate

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La mortalité

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Mortality

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Exploser / une explosion

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To boom / a boom

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Une augmentation brutale de la natalité

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A baby boom

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Une chute de la natalité

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A baby bust

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Un recensement

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A census

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Décennal

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Decennial

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La taille

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Size

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La répartition

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Distribution

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Compter

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To count

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Comptage du nombre de personnes

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Headcount

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Dénombrer / le dénombrement

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To enumerate / enumeration

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Une personne chargée du recensement

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An enumerator (US)

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Un formulaire

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A form

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Un questionnaire

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A questionnaire

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Remplir

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To fill in / to fill up (US)

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Une communauté

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A community

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Un foyer

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A household

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Le revenu

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Income

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Par tête

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Per capita

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Moyen / la moyenne

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Average / the average

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Médian

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Median [mi:dian}

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Des statistiques / un statisticien

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Statistics / a statistician

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Des données

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Data

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Classer

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To classify

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Une estimation

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An estimate

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Projeter / des prévisions

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To project / projections

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Prévoir / des prévisions

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To forecast / forecast

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La surpopulation

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Overpopulation

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Fécond / la fécondité

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Fertile / fertility

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Le taux de fécondité

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The fertility rate

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Peuplé

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Crowded

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Surpeuplé

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Overcrowded / overpopulated

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Populeux / très peuplé

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Populous

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Augmenter / une augmentation

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To rise, to increase / a rise, an increase

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Important / considérable

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Substantial / significant

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Considérablement

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Substantially / significantly

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Spectaculaire / de façon spectaculaire

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Dramatic / dramatically

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Augmenter en flèche

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To soar, to (sky)rocket / to spiral

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Grossir

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To swell

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L’accroissement

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Swelling

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Doubler ; double

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To double ; twofold

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Tripler ; triple

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To triple ; threefold

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Culminer

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To peak

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Se stabiliser / la stabilisation

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To level off / out

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Avoir un impact sur / touché

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To affect / affected / hit

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Les ressources

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Ressources

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Épuiser / la diminution

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To deplete / depletion

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Épouvantable / désastreux

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Grim / dire

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Alarmant

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Alarming

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Une pénurie

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A shortage / a dearth

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Aggraver

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To worsen

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Bas / faire baisser

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Low / to lower

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Diminuer / réduire

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To bring down

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La dénatalité

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Birth rate decline

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Chuter

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To decline

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Une chute / une baisse

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A decline

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Diminuer

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To go down

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Chuter / diminuer

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To fall / to decrease

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Une chute / une baisse

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A fall / a decrease

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Chuter / une chute

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To drop / a drop

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Se réduire

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To shrink

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S’effondrer / un effondrement

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To collapse / a collapse

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Retarder / le retardement

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To postpone, to delay / postponement, delay

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La maternité

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Childbearing / motherhood

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L’équilibre / le déséquilibre

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Balance / imbalance

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Une proportion / un rapport

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A ratio

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Dépasser

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To outnumber

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Les jeunes / les vieux

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The young / the old

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Prendre sa retraite

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To retire

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Un retraité / la retraite

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A retiree, a pensioner / retirement

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Une pension

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A pension

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Une crise

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A crisis

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Prendre des mesures

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To take action

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Donner une impulsion à

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To boost

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Une incitation

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An incentive

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Une tendance

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A trend

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Un renversement

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To renverse / a renversal

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Recenser / effectuer un recensement

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To conduct / to take / to hold a census

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Une classe d’age

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An age group

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Une pyramide des âges

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An age pyramid

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Le taux de mortalité infantile

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Infant mortality rate

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La croissance démographique

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Population growth

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Décupler

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To increase tenfold

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Une migration massive

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Mass migration

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Le contrôle des naissances

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Birth control

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Le planning familial

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Family planning

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L’âge de procréation

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Childbearing age

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Au-dessous du taux de remplacement

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Below the replacement rate

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Le déséquilibre numérique entre hommes et femmes

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The gender imbalance

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Une politique démographique

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A population policy

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Une politique de l’enfant unique

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A one-child policy

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Le ratio garçons-files

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The sex ratio

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Renverser la tendance

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To buck the trend

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L’augmentation de l’espérance de vie

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Increased life expectancy

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Le vieillissement de la population

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An ageing / grating population

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La crise des pensions

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The pension(s) crisis

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Reculer l’âge de la retraite

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To postpone retirement age

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Augmenter les cotisations

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To raise contributions

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