‘Not about condoms’: Beijing residents shrug off China’s contraceptive tax

By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAFP Published on 05/01/2026 – 13:28 GMT+1 •Updated 13:35 China has raised the cost of condoms and other…
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"Man, I now have to pay taxes on birth control things? Let me save money by not using any and just have some babies instead, which are not expensive at all." 🙄

https://us.cnn.com/2025/12/31/world/video/china-condom-contraceptives-tax-birth-rate-vrtc-digvid

#China #birthControl #economics #birthRate #sarcasm

Why China is making condoms and birth control pills more expensive | CNN

Ten years after scrapping its controversial one-child policy, China’s policymakers are scrambling to reverse the country’s declining birth rate. CNN’s Simone McCarthy unpacks how Beijing is trying to encourage young people to have more children.

Tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin đề xuất cách tiếp cận mới nhằm tăng tỷ lệ sinh, bao gồm việc khuyến khích vai trò làm cha tích cực hơn và mở rộng hỗ trợ miễn thuế cho các gia đình khi sinh con. Ông nhấn mạnh cần thay đổi nhận thức xã hội và tăng hỗ trợ kinh tế để thúc đẩy sinh đẻ trong bối cảnh dân số Nga đang đối mặt với nguy cơ suy giảm.

#Putin #Nga #TỷLệSinh #DânSố #ChínhSáchGiaĐình #Population #Russia #BirthRate #FamilyPolicy #VladimirPutin

https://vietnamnet.vn/ong-putin-dua-ra-cach-tiep-

Two births and 27 deaths in one village: Poland's tumbling birthrate.

With an average of 1.03 children per woman, Poland has the lowest fertility rate in Europe. Increasing family allowances has not changed that.

The exhaustion of the population following the collapse of the 1990s, and then two decades of economic boom, is one of the explanations.,

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251201-two-births-and-27-deaths-in-one-village-polands-tumbling-birthrate?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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Two births and 27 deaths in one village: Poland's tumbling birthrate.

With an average of 1.03 children per woman, Poland has the lowest fertility rate in Europe. Increasing family allowances has not changed that. The exhaustion of the population following the …

Le Monde
Secret History #2: How Societies Collapse

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You're Wrong About Birth Rates & Aging Populations

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Does your town have "capacity to build a life with someone"? Not just places to meet, but jobs in same area, neighborhood #supportsystems?

Poland’s #birthrate is in freefall. The cause? A #loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve | Anna Gromada https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/polands-birth-rate-is-in-freefall-the-cause-a-loneliness-epidemic-that-state-cash-cant-solve

Poland’s birth rate is in freefall. The cause? A loneliness epidemic that state cash can’t solve

Bonuses for families have done nothing to fix a baby bust caused by post-communist Europe’s relationships crisis, says sociologist Anna Gromada

The Guardian

Population decline causes problems, especially under the "a growing economy is a healthy economy" mantra, when
"...basic assumptions about capitalism and economic growth evolved when nearly every country was experiencing rapid population increases."

But the Earth has limits -we have to find a new paradigm where a stable economy is a healthy economy...

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5576355/population-babies-capitalism

#Economics #Capitalism #BirthRate #Sustainability