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May 12, 2010

The religious shall inherit the earth? Yes says a new book.

A leading British political scientist has predicted the reversal of secularism around mid-century simply because religious people are more likely to marry and have more children than non-believers. In his new Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First...

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April 11, 2010

Over Half of Italian Families Childless: Report

A new report has revealed that 53.4 per cent of Italian families have no children. The report said that 21.9 per cent of households have only one child and just 19 per cent have two. While mass immigration contributes to Italy's population growth, the country's rock-bottom fertility rate of 1.31...

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March 25, 2010

Irish retirement age will rise to 68 in overhaul of pensions

As Ireland joins the rest of Europe in facing an unprecedented demographic shift, the government has announced that the retirement age will be raised to 66 in four years and eventually to 68 as part of a comprehensive reform of the pension system.

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February 17, 2010

Vatican Economist: Recession Caused by Low Birthrate

Aaccording to the president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, the recession is caused by the low birthrate, ordinary people who do not "believe in the future" and have few or no children. "The true cause of the crisis is the decline in the birth rate,” Ettore Gotti Tedeschi...

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January 26, 2010

Germany Faces Economic Downturn with Plummeting Birth Rate and Aging Population

Germany could be facing a critical downturn over the next five decades because of its dramatically shrinking birth rate and dropping population, a new government report has said. The falling and aging population will result in the eventual disintegration of Germany's generous social welfare...

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January 15, 2010

UN: Elderly to Outnumber Children for First Time in 2045

A new report from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs concludes that the number of elderly people worldwide will outnumber children for the first time in 2045, forecasting the start of a "demographic winter" some experts say could constitute the biggest international...

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November 20, 2009

Massive Changes Needed in EU Family Policy to Avoid Demographic "Catastrophe": Report

A report presented to the EU Parliament has said that the situation regarding abortion, marriage, divorce and the birth rate in Europe is bad and only getting worse.

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July 22, 2009

World's elderly to overtake number of infants

The world's population is becoming steadily greyer with the number of people aged over 65 on course to overtake the number of infants for the first time in history, a study has found.

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June 26, 2009

Fifth of British women now remain childless

A new study has shown that one in five women are remaining childless as an increasing proportion choose not to marry and put their career before raising a family.

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