Bhutan battles 'existential' population crisis with birth drive
The new Third Child Plus program gives monthly payments of $105 as births fall 27% since 2020 and migration strains the workforce.
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Bhutan battles 'existential' population crisis with birth drive
Annual births have dropped by more than a quarter over the past decade, compounding the country's loss of youngsters to migration. Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has repeatedly rung the alarm over the population slump, calling it an "existential" crisis, according to the state's Bhutan Broadcasting Service. "The evidence is unambiguous -- Bhutan's fertility has declined to near or below replacement level," Tobgay wrote in the introduction to the…
In the face of a fertility rate under two children per woman, the Himalayan kingdom pays a monthly premium to families who have at least one child.The family... Read more Bhutan takes out the portfolio to revive its birth rate appeared first on Le Singulier.
The number of annual births has collapsed by more than a quarter over the last decade in this country of less than 800,000 trapped souls between China and India, at the same time as the exodus of its young people in search of employment has increased.
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