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Post by TsarSamuil on Jun 7, 2011 16:55:05 GMT -5
There are 10,000 abortions in Croatia each year.
Croatian Times
07.06.11. - 15:00
There are 28 abortions on average every day in Croatia, statistics show.
The numbers include intentionally terminated pregnancies as well as miscarriages, and in one year, amount to some 10,000.
UN data shows that worldwide, there were 20 million abortions (125,000 per day) in the first five months of this year.
The highest rate of abortion is registered in the Russian Federation (43 for every 1,000 women aged between 15 and 44). The European (and Croatian) average is 10 to 15 abortions per 1,000 women.
There are 4,450 legally performed abortions in Croatia every year. According to the Croatian Institute for Public Health, there are an additional 4,500 "other" pregnancy terminations. It is not clear what these numbers refer to, daily Jutarnji List writes.
In 1995, there were three times as many abortions as today. The number of legal abortions however is not certain as experts claim some of them are performed in private clinics, in violation of the law.
Statistics also show that the majority of women who decide on an abortion are between 20 and 40 years old, married and already have two to three children. Only 380 abortions were had by young women under the age of 19.
Doctors say the young girls use contraception more often, while married women often use less certain methods, such as "withdrawal".
Encouraged by the Pope's message on his recent visit to the country, some Croatian bishops have called for a ban on abortions and same-sex unions.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Jun 9, 2011 17:03:23 GMT -5
Eurostat: Bulgaria Set for Sharpest Population Decline in EU.
Novinite.com
Bulgaria in EU | June 9, 2011, Thursday
The European Union population is projected to increase from 501 million on January 1, 2010, to 525 million in 2035, to peak at 526 million around 2040.
After 2040, it will gradually decline to 517 million in 2060.
These population projections1 for the period 2010-2060 were issued Thursday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
Population projections are scenarios that aim to provide information about the possible future size and structure of the population, and should therefore be considered with caution.
Between 2010 and 2060, the population is projected to rise in fourteen Member States and fall in thirteen.
The sharpest declines in population are projected for Bulgaria (-27%), Latvia (-26%), Lithuania (-20%), Romania and Germany (both -19%) while the strongest population growth is expected in Ireland (+46%), Luxembourg (+45%), Cyprus (+41%), the United Kingdom (+27%), Belgium (+24%) and Sweden (+23%).
There are projected to be considerable differences between the Member States.
In 2060, the Member States with the largest populations would be the United Kingdom (79 million), France (74 million), Germany (66 million), Italy (65 million) and Spain (52 million).
The EU population is also projected to continue to grow older, with the share of the population aged 65 years and over rising from 17% in 2010 to 30% in 2060, and those aged 80 and over rising from 5% to 12% over the same period.
The EU population is expected to become older throughout the projection period, due in particular to relatively low fertility and an increasing number of people living to higher ages. This ageing process will occur in all Member States. In 2060, the share of the population aged 65 or more is projected to range from 22% in Ireland and 25% in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Denmark to 36% in Latvia, 35% in Romania and Poland and 33% in Bulgaria, Germany and Slovakia.
Comparing 2060 with the situation one hundred years before, in 1960, the share of those aged 65 or more is expected to increase between two and six times in the Member States for which data are available.
In 2060, the share of the population aged 80 or more is projected to be 12% on average in the EU, to range from 9% in Ireland, Cyprus and the United Kingdom to 14% in Spain, Italy and Germany.
Compared with the situation one hundred years before, in 1960, the share of those aged 80 or more is expected to grow between five and eighteen times by 2060 in the Member States for which data are available.
In consequence, the old age dependency ratio in the EU, i.e. the population aged 65 years and older divided by the population aged 15 to 64, is projected to increase from 26% in 2010 to 53% in 2060. In other words, there would be only two persons aged 15 to 64 for every person aged 65 or more in 2060, compared with four persons to one in 2010.
The old age dependency ratio is projected to be 60% or more in Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, Poland,
Romania and Slovakia, and 45% or less in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.
In 1960, the old age dependency ratio ranged from 10% to 19% in the Member States for which data are available, meaning that there were between five and ten persons aged 15 to 64 for every person aged 65 or more.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Jul 2, 2011 10:25:00 GMT -5
Russia says abortion ads must carry health warning.
By Amie Ferris-Rotman
MOSCOW | Fri Jul 1, 2011 3:23pm EDT
(Reuters) - Russian lawmakers, worried about a falling birth rate, passed a law on Friday that abortion advertisements must carry a health warning.
Russia has one of the world's highest abortion rates and cutting this could help it stem a demographic disaster that is looming as its population shrinks.
Under the new law approved by the lower house of parliament, 10 percent of the space used in abortion ads must carry a list of possible negative consequences for women, including infertility, RIA news agency reported.
According to the lower house's website, duma.gov.ru, 2007 saw 1.5 million abortions -- almost on a par with the number of children born that year.
"These ads make young girls believe they won't have any problems interrupting a pregnancy," RIA quoted parliamentarian Viktor Zvagelsky as saying of current advertisements.
He said the law was drawn up as "the situation with abortions in Russia was depressing."
Though the Soviet Union was the first country in the world to legalize abortion on request in 1920, dictator Josef Stalin outlawed it again, from 1936 until he died in 1954, to try to boost the birth rate.
The Communists later encouraged new births with prizes and money, but since they were ousted two decades ago Russia's population has steadily dropped. It shrunk by more than 12 million between 1992 and 2008, to around 143 million.
The United Nations predicts that by 2050 Russia's population will have dropped by almost a fifth from today to 116 million. It has said overcoming racism and taking in more migrants could help Russia boost its population.
Health experts say key factors in the decline are poor diet leading to heart disease, heavy drinking by men, an HIV/AIDS epidemic spurred by heroin abuse and a high number of violent deaths.
The bill is expected to pass the upper house and be signed into law by President Dmitry Medvedev without problem.
The country's increasingly powerful Orthodox church weighed heavily into the abortion issue a year ago, calling for tougher rules to reduce their number. Feminists argued this would hurt women's rights.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Jul 2, 2011 10:30:05 GMT -5
MPs pass citizens’ anti-abortion initiative.
PAP
01.07.2011 15:44
A citizens’ initiative to completely outlaw abortion in Poland has been passed by parliament, and will land on the desk of an extraordinary committee to look into the petition.
The bill was voted on in parliament today by 416 members of the Sejm lower house. 151 parliamentarians voted for the outright rejection of the citizens’ initiative, while 254 approved the initiative’s application. Eleven MPs abstained.
Three parties in parliament, Law and Justice, its splinter group Poland Comes First, as well as junior coalition partners the Polish Peasants’ Party voted for the initiative, while the Democratic Left Alliance voted against the initiative.
The extraordinary committee now has until 1 September to file its findings into the proposed bill, which assumes the total abolition of abortion in Poland. Currently, the country has one of the strictest anti-termination laws in the EU.
The petition has so far been signed by around 600,000 people. The authors of the imitative have said that the Polish Constitution protects life in the pre-natal phase, and as such any law allowing abortion would go against the document.
The current abortion law has been in place since 1993, and allows for termination in only a number of cases: when the pregnancy constitutes a health threat for the mother, when medical certification proves that the foetus is terminally damaged, and pregnancy as a result of rape. (jb)
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Post by kralimarko on Aug 8, 2011 1:37:17 GMT -5
The population of Bulgaria as of February 2011 is 7.364.570 people, of whom Ethnic Bulgarians make up only 5.664.624 people! 10 years ago there where 6.552.751 Bulgarian Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria and today there is one MILLION less of them! sofiaecho.com/2011/07/21/1126999_....-census-resultsEthnic Bulgarians in Bulgaria 1985-2011: 1985: 7.854.993 1992: 7.490.019 2001: 6.655.210 2011: 5.666.624 |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 8, 2011 14:28:30 GMT -5
They emigrated.
You should talk, albanian population exploding, Bulgaria on the other hand has muslim population whose birthrate isn't middle-eastern standard, not high.
Biggest problem is the gypsies though who do have high birthrates, but that problem is only temporarily because Bulgaria is not rich and it's only a matter of time until gypsies will be able to use Schengen to find greener pastures (west) to rob.
The shiptars however, aren't going anywhere..so don't point fingers.
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Post by kralimarko on Aug 8, 2011 19:25:09 GMT -5
Unlike the Bulgarians, the number of Macedonians in R. Macedonia holds steady, or slightly increases from census to census. Macedonia's population overall is increasing. Albanian numbers are not as high as what media reports. In the 2011 census of Kosovo, the total population was 1.6 million. This is well short of the 2 million+ always reported by the Albanians and western Media. Be careful what you read Bulgar, and concentrate your efforts on the disappearance of the Bulgarians in Bulgaria. You have 2 million non-Bulgarians, amongst a small total population of 7.3 million!! This is alarming in anyone's book.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 9, 2011 0:51:30 GMT -5
No, it's not, Bulgarians have more chances to emigrate than people in Macedonia do, who aren't even in the EU, so the comparison is stupid.
I bet some Serbs said something similar about the Albanians "oh, they aren't that many compared to the rest of the population in Yugoslavia, we should be fine!"
Why do I even talk with you, obviously you have trouble with simple knowledge n common sense!
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Post by kralimarko on Aug 9, 2011 1:07:31 GMT -5
No, it's not, Bulgarians have more chances to emigrate than people in Macedonia do, who aren't even in the EU, so the comparison is stupid. I bet some Serbs said something similar about the Albanians "oh, they aren't that many compared to the rest of the population in Yugoslavia, we should be fine!" Why do I even talk with you, obviously you have trouble with simple knowledge n common sense! We're not talking about Serbs and Albanians here. We're talking about Bulgarians. If this development doesn't bother you, well then I don't know what does. Unfortunately for you, you border Turkey, a major power, who has a large minority in your borders. You should be more worried about that, then Macedonia. |
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Post by zidar on Aug 9, 2011 6:06:44 GMT -5
Ethnic Bulgarians in Bulgaria 1985-2011: 1985: 7.854.993 1992: 7.490.019 2001: 6.655.210 2011: 5.666.624 Well this is terrible. |
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Post by kosmopolak on Aug 9, 2011 8:20:04 GMT -5
This above is another cause for concern. The citizens of a country should be more or less equally spread throughout a country. This a problem of Eastern Europe and Asia, that everyone moves to the large metropolias while leaving vast tracks of lands unsettled.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 9, 2011 13:46:38 GMT -5
No, it's not, Bulgarians have more chances to emigrate than people in Macedonia do, who aren't even in the EU, so the comparison is stupid. I bet some Serbs said something similar about the Albanians "oh, they aren't that many compared to the rest of the population in Yugoslavia, we should be fine!" Why do I even talk with you, obviously you have trouble with simple knowledge n common sense! We're not talking about Serbs and Albanians here. We're talking about Bulgarians. If this development doesn't bother you, well then I don't know what does. Unfortunately for you, you border Turkey, a major power, who has a large minority in your borders. You should be more worried about that, then Macedonia. The point is the Serbs, much stronger than Macedonia, lost a territory like Kosovo, then for you to babble that it's Bulgaria instead of you that has big problems is just ludicrous! I ask you, do you have trouble reading? Muslims in Bulgaria don't have exploding birthrates, the only minority with huge birthrates, are the gypsies, and they will leave for the west at the first opportunity. So, Bulgaria has no big minority problems that Turkey could take advantage of, they are a nuisance is all. However, if Turkey should join the EU, then we can talk, but then it's an European problem not just Bulgaria. |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Aug 9, 2011 15:57:24 GMT -5
Won't reply to you anymore, clearly a waste of time.
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Post by spqr on Aug 13, 2011 12:44:34 GMT -5
The decline of the population labeled as "majority" is on the rise on the whole continent, not just Mulgaria. The same thing you can see most european countries, like romania, hungary, slovakia or western countries like the UK (aka New Pakistan), The Arab Republic of France or Germany (soon to be Small Turkey).
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Post by stefandecanski on Aug 15, 2011 18:48:15 GMT -5
I saw (not on this but some other topics, Serbia is like Nokia ....) that Bulgarians are very happy because Serbia lost Kosovo. Do you know moj bratko that there are more than 1000 monasteries, ORTODOX monasteries on Kosovo? Do you know that? And these more than 1000 years monasteries are in hands of Hašiš Tačmi. How can you be happy? In opposite situation I would be on your side.
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