1. ConflictsArmenia

   Armenia, Second Karabakh war: nine months on, births fell faster than a year before and than in countries without war

   Births 9–14 months after the start (September 2020) against the same months a year before: −5.2%; a year earlier +2.6%, countries without war +0.4%. The 2020 lockdown shifted birth registrations between months.

   Source: Monthly births: national offices, Eurostat, HFD STFF, UNdata; wars: UCDP/PRIO; Macroscope's calculationOpen on the chart →

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• Armenia: 19% fewer residents than in 1991
• Armenia: 61% fewer births than in 1985
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• Pakistan: more for the army than for education
• Ecuador: 7.9 times more homicides per 100,000 people than in 2017
• Austria: 45% fewer babies in 1917 (World War I) than before the war; about the same in countries without war

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