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South Korean births increased last year for the first time in nearly a decade
A nurse takes care of a newborn baby in a neonatal room of a hospital in Incheon, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Jeon Jin-hwan/Newsis via AP)   SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The number of babies born in South Korea rebounded for the first time in nine years in 2024, welcome news...
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POPCOM: Population decline due to COVID-19, not vaccines
The Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has debunked claims that COVID-19 vaccines caused "depopulation" in the country, which has been circulating in social media and triggered hesitancy among the public. FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN POPCOM Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez III...
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Births, marriages in 2020 lowest in decades
The number of babies born in the Philippines last year dropped to its lowest since 1986, while the country recorded a decline in the number of marriages also in 2020—the first year of the pandemic. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Citing data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in...
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