14/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Council of Europe has just published its annual demographic report for 2002. The population of the 46 countries (44 countries that are members of the organisation, Belarus and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) rose to 796.4 million early 2002. This corresponds to 0.5% growth, or 4.3 million persons. Whereas there is population growth in most countries, ten have falling population numbers. Such is the case of Latvia (-0.78%), the Federation of Russia (-0.6%)...