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In October 1966, Decree 770 was enacted, which banned abortion except in cases in which the mother was over forty years of age or already had four children in care. [2] Birth rates especially rose during the years of 1967, 1968 and 1969. [3] By 1977, people were taxed for being childless. [1]
Romania's population has declined steadily in recent decades, from a peak of 23.2 million in 1990 to 19.12 million in 2021. [9] Among the causes of population decline are high mortality, a low fertility rate since 1990, and tremendous levels of emigration.
Poverty in Romania refers to the percentage of the population of Romania that is considered to be living in poverty under various measures of poverty. The Romanian government defines "poverty" as an income less than 60% of the national median. In 2017, 23.6% of the population, or 4.6 million people, were affected by poverty. [1]
Corruption in Romania is a serious systemic problem, according to the anti-corruption report of the EC. [3] Although the anti-corruption struggle has seen an upward trend in recent years, and the investigations of the National Anticorruption Directorate (NAD) have led to a former prime minister's trial in 2015 [4] [5] and other important public representatives, [6] corruption still affects ...
See Demographics of Romania for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics. The 1930 census was the only one to cover Greater Romania. Censuses in 1948, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011 covered Romania's present-day territory, [1] as does the current 2022 census.
Victor Mendoza, the president of a farming co-op near the sprawling Yanacocha gold mine in northern Peru, with his 10-year-old son. The mine, built two decades ago with the financial backing of the International Finance Corp., the private-lending arm of the World Bank, is deeply unpopular in this region.
On Tuesday, mountain rangers said they found a 19-year-old tourist dead near a popular trail in the Carpathian mountains, central Romania. Romanian lawmakers called back from recess to address ...
On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked numerous targets in Israel, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar felt she had traveled back in time, to July 18, 1994. What happened in ...