Croatia Looks to Buck Europe’s Sharp Drop in Birth Rates

Croatia Looks to Buck Europe’s Sharp Drop in Birth Rates

The country is emblematic of demographic challenges facing Eastern Europe — the region experiencing the world’s fastest population decline.

In Spotcast we hosted the renowned gynecologist Nataša Tul Mandić, who also revealed the main reasons for problems with conception, which are becoming more and more common. It is not only that young people decide to have children more and more later, but also that we have too few sexual relationships. “That's the basis,” he says. See more in the clip, and the full conversation is available here.

Birth rates are falling in many countries, so governments around the world are trying to figure out how they can reverse the trend and avoid economic and social crises.