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The proportion of people of foreign origin living in Estonia who are now Estonian citizens has risen in the past decade, from 45 percent in 2011 to 47 percent at present, recent census survey results compiled by state agency Statistics Estonia reveals.
The government should do more to support the first and second child as family benefits hikes have concentrated on large families in recent years, with the most common family with one or two children receiving the least in the way of benefits, Mare Ainsaar, University of Tartu assistant professor of sociology and social policy told ERR.
0"> If the birth rate in Estonia reached 2.1 children, and external migration were balanced, the population decline would be halved over a 30-year period, Statistics Estonia analyst Mihkel Servinski claims (photo is illustrative). Source: Wikimedia Commons The demographic situation in Estonia is not bleak, mainly thanks to a slowing down of earlier rates of emigration, the social affairs ministry says. Hede Sinisaar, head of the department for analysis and statistics at the ministry, said Saturday that: "The comprehensive approach does not see the current demographic proc...
ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn "It is a tendency that is likely to be observed in 2021 as well." • 8 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.STOCK IMAGE/Pixel-shot/Shutterstock PARIS -- Often Europe's birth rate champion, France just registered the fewest annual births since the end of World War II. Only about 735,000 babies were born there in 2020, a 2.5% decrease from 2019, as birth rates in December 2020 (down 7%) and January 2021 (down 13.5%) plummeted from the same months a year earlier. STOCK IMAGE/Pixel-shot/Sh...