TEHRAN – The budget bill for the next year (March 21, 2022), has proposed 190 trillion rials (nearly $690 million) for childbearing and population growth, IRIB reported on Saturday. The Guardian Council approved the law on November 17, 2021 to implement a population growth and family support plan for 7 years to change the declining trend of childbearing. The lowest fertility rate in the whole region of West Asia, North Africa, and the MENA region is recorded for Iran. It refers to the total fertility rate that will result in a stable population without it increasing or decreasing. Seyed Hamed Barakati, deputy health minister for family and school population, said in May 2020 that Iran’s population growth rate has decreased to less than one percent for the first time over the past four decades.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 09, 2022 01:35 UTC