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The difference between the average life expectancy of women and men in Bulgaria is exactly 7 years in favor of the female, with the ladies in our country registering an average age of survival of 78.4 years, while for the men the statistics report 71.4 years. This is shown by data from an analysis of Eurostat on average life expectancy in the EU for the period 2017-2018.

According to Eurostat data, which was published today, In the EU-28 in 2017, around 18 200 children died before reaching one year of age; this was equivalent to an infant mortality rate of 3.6 deaths per 1 000 live births.

With 1,602 deaths per 100,000, Bulgaria ranks first in mortality in the EU in 2016. Bulgaria is followed by Latvia and Romania (1476), Lithuania (1455) and Hungary (1425). This is shows the data of a statistical analysis of the Eurostat statistical office published today.

Turkish authorities will deport an unregistered refugee diagnosed with AIDS and her newborn over a "threat to the public health."

Turkey's fertility rate reached 1.99 children in 2018, remaining below population's replacement level of 2.10, said the country's statistical authority on July 5.           

The number of refugees in Turkey has reached 4.9 million, reported NOVA TV. 

Today there are more than 68.5 million forcibly displaced people, 26 million refugees, and 3 million asylum seekers worldwide clinging to life, said Turkey's president on June 20.

The population of the planet will increase by 2 billion people over the next 30 years and will reach 9.7 billion in 2050. This is predicted by a UN report on global demographic change, the French press and TASS said.

By 2100, Earth's population could reach a peak of 11 billion people, the UN says.

Up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting intensifies in northwestern Syria as aid funds run dangerously low, the United Nations said on June 10.

A suspected migrant smuggler has been arrested in Thessaloniki on charges of repeatedly raping a 33-year-old Iraqi refugee woman whom he had held against her will with her two children in an apartment in the region of Volvi outside the northern port city.