1. ForecastsFinland

   Finland: all 12 UN projections since 1998 expected women to have more children

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 1.90 for 2020–2025; the outcome was 1.33 (−30%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 1.42 for 2025; the outcome was 1.30 (−8%).

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

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• Finland: births up for the second year in a row
• Finland: the poorest go without a doctor almost twice as often as in the 2010s
• Finland: women outlive men but have 2.2 fewer healthy years
• Finland: 30% read no books, while 23% read ten or more a year
• Israel: 15-year-olds with problems from social media rose from 5% to 16%, and maths did not fall; in Norway there are fewer, and maths fell 33 points
• Finland and Vietnam: almost equal fertility in 2010 (1.86 and 1.91 children per woman); by 2022, 1.32 and 1.93

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