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2020-05-18 22:21
By Faranak Bakhtiari
International Day of Families: population growth needs family-friendly policies
TEHRAN – Population, development and their consequences are strategic issues that require short-term and long-term policies and planning to be addressed. Due to the declining trend of population growth in Iran, it is better to focus on family-friendly policies.
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2019/05/31
By Maryam Qarehgozlou
Encouraging large families entails deliberate, sensible policies
TEHRAN — While governmental bodies are beset by major, growing worries regarding low birth rate in the country, it is important to formulate and adopt deliberate and sensible policies to address the issue.
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2019-05-19 19:57
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Iran facing population decline; is it possible to reverse the trend?
TEHRAN – Many demographers believe that Iran’s population has started to decline more sharply, one point to consider, however, is that Iran’s population growth rate is similar to today’s world average but substantially lower than its peak a few decades earlier.
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2018-12-22 21:12
Marriage rates falling by 5% annually, says health official
TEHRAN — The rate of marriage is dropping by 5 percent annually in Iran, director general for population health and family office at the Ministry of Health has said.
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2018-07-15 09:01
Iranian couples usually wait 4.5 years to have first child
TEHRAN — Iranian couples wait 4.5 years on the average to have their first child, director for the National Institute for Population Studies and Comprehensive Management affiliated to the Ministry of Science has said.
