Here's wikipedia's overview of Birth rates : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_birth_rate http://en.wikipedia.

Here's wikipedia's overview of Birth rates : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_birth_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... You can sort it. It's quite informative. It also shows that the difference between Japan and most of Europe is somewhat marginal. 8 vs 10. But what would be a "steady-state" birth rate ? Well life expectancy is ~70 years. So 1000 people should produce 1000 offspring in ~70 years. So steady-state birth-rate would be in the 14-15 range. Changes compound over time, so numbers close to 14-15 will effectively be equal to that whereas differences with that number have exponential effects. That seems to indicate that the vast majority of the world is slowly losing population (though that does not -yet- result in large declines of people). On the map that would be everything blue, green up to bright green, with sub-saharan Africa the only place that will experience rapid population growth from now on.