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The Save the Children organization sounds alarm on the high number of Romanian teenage mothers, pointing out that the country has nearly 13,000 teen first-time moms, over 3,600 two-time teenage moms and about 700 girls who have already had their third baby.

Decreasing workforce and low productivity of aging employees, coupled with rising pressures on public finances, can cost the economies of Central and Eastern Europe about 1% of GDP per year. By the middle of the century, per capita income will rise from the current 52% to around 60% of those in Western Europe.

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.           

Demographic ageing gained further ground last year, as the elderly population aged 65 and above exceeded by 434,000 the number of the young aged 0 - 14, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) said in a release published on Thursday. On January 1, 2019, more than 3.674 million people were in the elderly age bracket, while the young population was 3.240 million strong.

About 72 percent or 7 out of 10 Bulgarians over the age of 16 define their health status as good or very good. This shows data from a Eurostat analysis of the health status of Europeans in 2017 on the upcoming World Health Day, April 7, with the EU average of 70 percent, that is, we are almost approaching our health self-assessment to an average European level.

Bulgarian women are the youngest to give birth to their first child among the women in the European Union. This shows Eurostat data for 2017. The average age at first birth in Bulgaria is 26.1 years, with Romania and Latvia standing just behind our country.

A special parliamentary committee sounded the alarm Tuesday over Greece's shrinking population, stressing the need for measures to boost birth rates and to ensure "healthy aging" so as to minimize pressure on the health and social security systems.

According to a demographics report it presented in Parliament, Greece's population could drop to as low as 8.3 million people by 2050.

A special parliamentary committee on Tuesday presented a report on Greece's demographic predicament which foresees the country's population shrinking to as low as 8.3 million people in 2050.

Every year in Bulgaria, about 6,000 children are born prematurely, weighing less than 2,500 grammes. This figure has remained unchanged over the years. However, doctors note there is a good trend showing that more and more premature babies survive, even those born in the middle of pregnancy. The data was revelaed on the day Bulgarua marks the feast of St.

The trend of increase in Bulgaria's life expectancy continues, according to the 2017 report for the implementation of the updated National Strategy for the Demographic Development of Bulgaria (2012-2030), the government press office said, reports Focus News Agency.