Population ecology

Lawmakers are voting on Tuesday on draft legislation that foresees a special 2,000-euro bonus for all babies born in Greece from January 1, 2020, to parents earning less than 40,000 euros a year.

The end of "one-child policy" could not stop China's declining birth rate, the BBC reported.

The birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since the inception of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago - despite the elimination of "one-child policy".

The birth rate was 10.48 per thousand in 2019 - the lowest since 1949, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

By 2050, Bulgaria will lose a quarter of its population, according to a UN report cited by BGNES.

Romania's resident population was standing at 19.5 million as of January 1, 2018, with a negative rate of natural increase, according to a press statement released by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Thursday, July 11, World Population Day.

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.           

Only dreamers could have really believed that drilling for and exploiting hydrocarbons would have been an easy affair.

Similarly, one must view as dreamers those who envision global energy roles and loads of revenues without fully assuming the responsibilities that these roles entail.

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.

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.