Ingeborg Gowans: 9:29pm May 30, 2008: more context please. In what way did the development go? Christina Taylor: 9:36pm May 30, 2008: It's talking about how there is an increase in the amount of elderly living in the EU due to a good lifestyle, and also the large number of immigrants in Belgium who are there temporarilly...like skilled workers and experts and employees at international institutions (EU, NATO etc.). Bernhard Sulzer: 4:22am May 31, 2008: It does sound like tipping point but to what? To too many people immigrating, a certain percentage of the population/international workers? What is the previous sentence? "how there is an increase..." is not clear enough to me to agree with an answer. Thx
Erklärung: In this context: "the demographic balance tipped over in 2007".
No references. Just input from a "baby boomer"
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Added: I've reconsidered the 'tipped over'. Interestingly enough - Muret/S: "auf der Kippe stehen TASSE, FLASCHE etc.: be precariously balanced"
Remember the quotes - so, maybe "The balance of Austrian demographics became precarious in 2007."
To my mind, this is meant figuratively and means that were substantial changes that became apparent
As Bernhard so rightly says - tippped from where to where - and you will in fact never have demographic balance per se. Different statistical functions, each of which is in constant change.
Still, if they want to be talk figuratively, let's join in.
Erklärung: I am really not sure here. Were the quotations already in the text? If not I would say demographic balance. If they were there, I would say "demographic dregs" which, in my opinion would be a totally offensive text.
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