1. ForecastsNorway

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

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 1.98 for 2020–2025; the outcome was 1.46 (−26%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 1.52 for 2025; the outcome was 1.48 (−3%).

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

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• 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
• Switzerland and Italy: 19% and 65% of adults read no book in a year; adult literacy scores 266 and 246
• Sweden and South Korea: 93% and 84% online in 2012, maths at age 15 by 2018 +24 and −28 points
• Adults in 6 European countries where 90% or more go online daily did not read worse by 2023
• Norway’s Labour in 2009: 14 weeks of leave for fathers only. It happened in 2013; a year later it was cut to 10
• Norway in 2017: in 2025 all new cars would be zero-emission. They were 95.9%

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