1. ConflictsTajikistan

   Tajikistan, civil war: nine months on, births fell faster than a year before and than in countries without war

   Births 9–14 months after the start (May 1992) against the same months a year before: −9.1%; a year earlier −4.1%, countries without war −2.3%.

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

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• Tajikistan: women are in higher education 2.3 times as often as in 2010, yet fewer of them work
• Tajikistan: 17% fewer babies in 1996 than before the war; 5% more in countries without war
• Tajikistan: the UN's 1998 projection did not expect births this high even by 2050

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