1. ForecastsYemen

   Yemen: 9 of 11 UN projections since 1998 expected fewer births

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 1.08M births a year on average for 2015–2020; the outcome was 1.21M (+12%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 1.01M births for 2023; the outcome was 1.39M (+37%). "Outcome" here is the UN's own current estimate, not registration data.

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

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• Yemen: 5 downturns since 2015; the IMF expected none a year ahead
• Yemen: in April 2018 the IMF expected the economy to shrink 0.5%. The outcome: +8.5%
• Yemen: the UN's 2010 projection did not expect births this high even by 2100
• Yemen: from 8.46 to 6.14 children per woman in just 10 years
• The IMF foresaw 28 of 537 economic downturns around the world a year ahead
• 2022: the IMF expected inflation above 5% in 43 countries. It happened in 149

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