据一份来自奥地利的调查表明，家庭规模的减小和妇女生育年龄增大的趋势导致育龄妇女越来越少，从而无法改变近几年欧洲人口下降的局面。

• Trends towards smaller families and later motherhood mean that there are too few women of childbearing age to reverse the decline in the near future,according to an Austrian study.