1. ForecastsRomania

   Romania: births are already as low as the UN expected only only after 2050

   2025: 134k. The UN's 2022 projection expected 197k for 2025; only only after 2050 did it fall to this level, at least 26 years later.

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

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• Romania: an older population than France
• Romania: wind and sun have overtaken coal
• Romania: more deaths than births for over 10 years in a row
• Romania: the share of the poorest going without a doctor fell from 12.0% to 6.0%
• Romania: 93% live in a home they own, but 40% in overcrowded housing
• 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

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