Governments Complain About Low Birth Rates at UN Population Conference
By Iulia-Elena Cazan, C-Fam:
A groundswell of complaints engulfed the annual UN Commission on Population and Development. Countries are in an angry panic about the results of decades-long propaganda favoring lowering fertility rates. Even so, Western countries and UN agencies doubled down the need for lower fertility rates.
Governments voiced concerns that low fertility rates are threatening their societies with anemic economic growth, labor shortages, fiscal insolvency, and other social problems at the annual gathering at UN headquarters in New York.
The Iranian Mission to the UN said that “The family planning policy and the reduction of fertility rate were among the objectives of the Cairo Population and Development Conference in 1994 for all countries, without accounting for the economic, social, and cultural variations and indicators. This policy has led to a sharp decline in the fertility rate in most countries.”
The Iranian delegate continued, “In Iran, due to the excessive implementation of national family planning policies, our country is now facing the risk of an aging population crisis sooner than other countries.” Iran has experienced the steepest decline in fertility rates of any country in history.
Alarmed at population decline, Bosnia and Herzegovina told the conference, “We will get old and tired before we get developed…We anticipate that over the next years Bosnia and Herzegovina will need on an annual basis an additional 3% of GDP to only keep the education, healthcare, and pensions at the current level.”
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