By 1991, the policy was gone, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and the birthrate plunged.
Scotland has a lower birthrate: 1.47 children per woman compared with 1.66 in England.
According to the CDC, the out-of-wedlock birthrate for white children was just 2% in the 1960s.
But there are even more wins for the birthrate if we enact universal preschool.
One reason for this immigration windfall is that young immigrants will compensate for the low U.S. birthrate.
With its rapidly aging population and low birthrate, Japan is the world's largest market for life insurance.
But virtually every country in Europe has a birthrate that is too low to sustain the population.
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Almost 50 years ago, when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, the national out-of-wedlock birthrate was 7%.
Demographers have stated that the ideal birthrate rate for China is 16.7 per 1, 000, or 1.7 children per family.
Now the birthrate of native-born Americans is dropping, and if we want to continue to grow the economy .
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One of the reasons for the growth and the power of the American economy is that the birthrate of .
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Only two countries are above the western European average: Slovenia, thanks to its wealth, and Turkey, because of its booming birthrate.
Later in the program, we're going to take a look at an increase in the teen birthrate after years of steady decline.
The most dramatic changes took place between 1970 and 1980 when the birthrate dropped from 44 per 1000 to 18 per 1, 000.
There are two ways that universal preschool can make birthrate handwringers happy.
But the birthrate has continued to decline steadily, although with a slight improvement in the number of babies born last year, according to government statistics.
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With the U.S. birthrate heading downwards, at least for now, immigration represents perhaps the one way regions can boost their populations and energize their economies.
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With a somewhat higher birthrate than its Chinese or South American counterparts, Indian cities can be expected to continue expanding at least for the next decade or so.
"Mentos has always stood for 'fresh thinking, ' so we decided to apply some to an issue that is very close to home: our declining national birthrate, " said Mr. Chan.
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Knowing the government's pledge of more cash for more babies wouldn't be enough to raise the worryingly low birthrate, discussions on how to make workplaces family-friendly were reaching a pitch.
The birthrate in this country has fallen below the level necessary to sustain the population at the very time that millions of Americans are leaving the workforce and expecting retirement benefits.
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Mexican families have fewer mouths to feed as the country's birthrate has declined to near replacement level, or about 2.1, akin to that in the U.S., meaning Mexicans feel under less pressure to move north to find work.
It's slightly alarming, therefore, to find one of the Scottish government's responses to the CEBR is to cite figures that suggest Scotland's business birthrate has fallen less fast through the early part of the downturn than the UK as a whole.
He has plotted the rate of increase in hundredth birthdays in Britain between 1910 and 1996, taking into account variations in the birthrate, and found that until 1946 the number of centenarians increased at a rate of just 1% per year.
Germany's example is especially instructive: Although the state's family policies are now among the most generous in Europe -- a parent who stays home with a child receives 67% of his or her current net income for up to 12 months -- they have failed to boost the birthrate or reverse the figures for childless women.
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