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2025-07-20 International-UN-NGOs

Middle East fertility slump: Fewer babies, big problems?

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-20 2025-07-20 04:00|| || Front Page|| [231 views ] Top

#1 Faster please.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-20 04:40|| 2025-07-20 04:40|| Front Page Top

#2 The World Bank is concerned ?

I'd have to call that a most positive second-order effect.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-20 06:35|| 2025-07-20 06:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Falling fertility rates are a global phenomenon.

Sometimes that's a good thing.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-20 07:05|| 2025-07-20 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Muslim colonists still breed like Australian rabbits.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-20 08:23|| 2025-07-20 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 It's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-20 08:34|| 2025-07-20 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6
Do a little digging and note when Fertility issues started.

It will raise an eye.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-07-20 09:42|| 2025-07-20 09:42|| Front Page Top

#7 "WHY ARE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAVING FEWER BABIES?"
Maybe because pumping out kids isn't the solution to your problem, unless your problem is childhood mortality.
And I say this as one of seven siblings.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-20 09:59|| 2025-07-20 09:59|| Front Page Top

#8 ...On the other hand, Israel's fertility rate is 2.89, almost twice some of those numbers.

On that basis, Israel is winning.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-20 10:22|| 2025-07-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 in many of the urban centers, not just in the middle east, a typical young man can not afford his own apartment thus making marriage a dubious proposition

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-20 15:29|| 2025-07-20 15:29|| Front Page Top

#10 They could use a little depopulation to get a better life in Gaza.

Posted by KBK 2025-07-20 17:42|| 2025-07-20 17:42|| Front Page Top

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