Fertility

Birth rate declining in Turkey: Report

A recent report by Turkey's statistical authority has revealed a trend of declining birth rates in the country.

Nearly 1.12 million new births were registered in 2020, down from 1.18 million the year before, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on May 18.

According to TÜİK, 51.3 percent of babies born last year were boys, while 48.7 percent were girls.

China posts slowest population growth in decades

China's population has grown at its slowest pace in decades, reaching 1.41 billion, census results showed on May 11, highlighting fears of a looming crisis over an ageing society.

The growth of 5.4 percent was the slowest since the 1960s, due in part to falling birthrates and a sharp drop in the number of working-age people.

"Coronavirus threatens to destroy humanity even after we eradicate it"

Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan call for urgent research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection on male fertility due to the abundant evidence of reduced sperm motility, fewer sperm and testicular damage, claiming the virus threatens to destroy humanity after the pandemic is over.

The Minister presented a startling fact: Serbs are dying VIDEO

He was a hosted on TV Prva, in the morning program, and stated that about 17.000 citizens of Serbia died in December alone.
"A city the size of Sabac disappeared, it didn't look like that two or three months ago, but in December there was a terrible leap in the number of deaths. And that is an increase compared to 2019 by 15 percent," said Dmitrovi.

Fertility rate in Turkey in decline, but still above European average: TÜİK

Turkey's total fertility rate, the average number of live births that a woman gives, fell to 1.88 per woman in 2019, according to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

"While the total fertility rate was 1.99 children in 2018, it was 2.07 children in 2017. This showed that fertility remained below the population's replacement level of 2.10," TÜİK stated.

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