Source link More missiles and bomb shelters might motivate Ukrainians to have babies, the president has claimed Kiev needs more air defense systems to help Ukrainians have more children, President Vladimir Zelensky said on Thursday. Ukraine currently has the lowest fertility rate in the world. The issue of demographics came up during Zelensky’s meeting with […]
Source link Sweden’s total fertility rate – the number of children an average woman gives birth to during her lifetime – sank to a record low in 2023, and is on course to plunge further this year, Sveriges Television (SVT) reported on Friday, citing Statistics Sweden. According to the report, the rate was 1.45 children […]
Source link The move has “stunned” economists who expected the central bank to keep rates unchanged The Turkish central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 500 basis points to 50% on Thursday, citing the need to tame skyrocketing inflation. The hike came as a surprise, as most economists expected the central bank to keep […]
Source link The central bank had previously hiked rates at five successive meetings over a six-month period Russia’s central bank left its key interest rate unaltered at 16% at its scheduled meeting on Friday, saying that tight monetary policy will be necessary to return stubborn inflation back to target levels. The no-change decision comes after […]
Source link Australia’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since early 2022, hitting 4.1% in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported on Thursday. The figure is slightly above the consensus expectation of 4%, an uptick from December’s reported 3.9%. The economy added 11,100 full-time jobs and shed 10,600 part-time jobs last […]
Source link Police in the UK are searching for a man suspected of carrying out an acid attack on a mother and her two young children A chemical substance attack on a woman and her two young children in southwest London last week has highlighted a rising trend of serious assaults involving corrosive substances in […]
Source link More than 17,000 legal violations were committed by foreign nationals in the country in 2023, according to police data The influx of Ukrainian refugees to Poland since the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev has had a negative impact on crime in the country, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper has reported, citing data […]
Source link The country’s population is increasingly sustained by immigrants and the elderly, government statistics show Births in France fell to their lowest number last year since the end of the Second World War, the country’s national statistics office has revealed. As in much of Europe, fertility rates in France are declining, while mass immigration […]
Source link A record number of businesses closed across the UK last year, according to a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released this week. ONS data shows that the number of so-called ‘business deaths’ increased from 328,000 to 345,000 between 2021 and 2022. That led to an increase in the ‘death […]