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unusual facts about birth rate



Eugene Nelson

"I think the chief priorities today," he wrote in 1993, "are preventing nuclear explosions; feeding the starving; lessening pollution and the exhaustion of the earth's resources; achieving a much lower birth rate; homes for all; and cooperative and participatory democracy (with compassion) in all aspects of life."


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Demographics of Singapore

In September 1965 the Minister for Health, Yong Nyuk Lin, submitted a white paper to Parliament, recommending a "Five-year Mass Family Planning programme" that would reduce the birth rate to 20.0 per thousand individuals by 1970.

Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch

In November 2013, Pearson was criticised for his comments about Islam in the United Kingdom, stating that "We see Sharia law running de facto in our land and we see a birth rate which is several times ours" and "These people hate us with frightening religious fervour and we are right to fear them."

Octavius Beale

In 1903, Beale was appointed one of twelve members of a Royal Commission into the decline of the birth rate in New South Wales.