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Marriage rates in China continue to fall despite CCP plan to boost birth:
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 14 (ANI): The marriage rate in China is continuing to fall in spite of policies from the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aimed at encouraging people to have more children, according to a report.
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Marriage rates in China fall despite plan to boost births
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 11 (ANI): Due to facing barriers in setting up new homes, the marriage rates in China is declining despite the plan to boost births.
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Delhi's decreased infant mortality rate is result of better access to heal
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 29 (ANI): Delhi's infant mortality rate has decreased from 24.19 per cent in 2019 to 20.37 per cent in 2020m said Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia citing a government report and added that it is the result of better access to healthcare facilities to a
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China mulls end to childbirth restrictions by 2025:Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 19 (ANI): China is considering ending its limits on childbirth by 2025 after finding its population growth is slowing down, said a report.
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China's three-child policy won't prevent long-term trend toward lower annu
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 15 (ANI): China's recently-announced three-child policy will not help the country to drastically raise the birthrate, said a top Chinese economist, adding that the country will struggle to raise the retirement age by more than a couple of years by 2025.
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Japan's birth rate fell to record low in 2020 amid COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 5 (ANI): The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low last year, as more couples put off marriage and starting a family amid a global pandemic, said reports.
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Xinjiang birth rate fell nearly half in two years after Chinese crackdown:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 13 (ANI): The birth rate across the Xinjiang region fell by nearly half in the two years after China adopted "coercive and intrusive policing of reproduction processes", according to new research.
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China targets Xinjiang Muslim women to suppress birth rate
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): As China continues its crackdown on the Uyghur community, the Xi Jinping government forces the women residing in the Xinjiang region to have fewer babies under the name of population control.
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Study: Ladies in urban areas more averse to have kids
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 21 (ANI): A research published in Oxford University Press, claimed that women in cities that have a higher percentage of females than males in the population are less likely to conceive as compared to rural areas.
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Once oppressed, Xinjiang's Uyghur women take on Chinese government
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Uyghur women have found themselves the targets of some of Beijing's cruellest tactics - featuring forced sterilisations and intrauterine devices (IUD) implantations--meant to slash birth rates, which dropped 24 per cent in 2019 in Xinjiang compared with 4.2 p
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Dip in birth rate to hamper China's workforce in coming years
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 2 (ANI): Although China's economy looks comparatively strong in the short term, the country however is losing out demographically, as there have been several indications that fewer babies were born in the country in 2020 than in any year since 1961, when it suffered ma
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Xinjiang records sharp drop in birth rate amid growing focus on Uyghur gen
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 1 (ANI): Amid growing criticism over human right abuses by the Beijing, population statistics published by the Chinese government shows a significant drop in birth rates in Xinjiang province.
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