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2022-07-11 16:31
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Towards a resilient future
TEHRAN – Population growth affect economic development, employment, income distribution, poverty, health, and social protections. To more sustainably address the future needs of individuals, policymakers must understand how many people are living on the planet, where they are, how old they are, and how many people will come after them.
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2022-04-26 17:26
Negative population growth rate stalls
TEHRAN –The downward trend of Iran’s population growth stopped for the first time in the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2021-March 2022), Hesamoddin Allameh, the secretariat of the National Council of the Elderly, has said.
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2022-01-08 17:14
$690m budget proposed for population growth
TEHRAN – The budget bill for the next year (March 21, 2022), has proposed 190 trillion rials (nearly $690 million) for childbearing and population growth, IRIB reported on Saturday.
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2021-10-30 17:15
Govt. seriously supports childbearing policy: VP
TEHRAN – The government is making serious efforts to support population growth policies and childbearing, First Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber said on Saturday.
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2021-10-25 17:40
Demographic indicators at ‘alarming’ levels
TEHRAN – Iran's demographic indicators demonstrate alarming records, as the population growth rate is about 0.6 percent, and it is predicted to reach zero in the next 10-15 years, and then record a negative growth rate, Saleh Ghasemi, a demographic researcher, has said.
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2021-05-19 17:24
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Middle-aged Iran: zero population growth in 20 years
TEHRAN – Iran, which is now called “middle-aged” with about 70 percent of the active population, is sounding the alarm about the declining trend of population growth and the upward trend of aging.
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2021-03-16 15:16
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Plan on population growth, family support approved
TEHRAN – The Majlis (Iranian Parliament) approved on Tuesday to implement a population growth and family support plan for 7 years to change the declining trend of childbearing.
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2021-02-12 16:46
Birth rate in Iran declines by 5% in 6 months on year
TEHRAN – The number of births registered in Iran during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2020) shows a decrease of five percent compared to the same period last year.
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2020-12-23 16:54
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Civil registration in Iran turns 102
TEHRAN – The National Organization for Civil Registration in Iran began its activities on December 25, 1918, issuing the first Iranian identity card for a girl named “Fatemeh Irani” in Tehran.
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2020-11-11 17:31
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Iran's demographic issue: fertility reaches lowest rate in 8 years
TEHRAN – The fertility rate in Iran has been declining over the past eight years, the lowest of which was related to the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2019- March 2020) with the birth rate of 1.2, according to the data recently published by the Statistics Center.
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2020-11-04 17:51
Majlis draws up plan to encourage childbearing
TEHRAN – The Majlis (Iranian parliament) has developed a support plan to encourage families to increase childbearing.
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2020/10/04
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Aging population: a crisis bigger than coronavirus
TEHRAN – According to official statistics, Iran will be the oldest country in the world by the next 30 years. This will bring up many individual and social consequences both in national and international arenas even bigger than the coronavirus crisis.
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2020-09-29 18:03
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Let's care more for our elderly during coronavirus
TEHRAN – Many people around the world, particularly the elderly, are suffering from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2020-05-20 17:56
Population growth drops to less than 1% for first time
TEHRAN – The country's population growth rate has decreased to less than one percent for the first time over the past four decades, Seyed Hamed Barakati, deputy health minister for family and school population has said.
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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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2019-08-07 18:34
Low birth rate unprecedented over past three decades
TEHRAN – Iran’s birth rate has been declining since last year up to now, which was unprecedented over the past three decades, head of committee on population studies affiliated to the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution has stated.
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2019-08-02 22:03
Special committee aims to prevent negative population growth
TEHRAN – In a letter to the heads of medical science universities and colleges across the country, Health Minister Saeed Namaki ordered the formation of a special committee aimed to prevent the country's population from declining, ISNA reported Tuesday.
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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.
