Demographic policy, in particular measures for birth rate stimulation, has generated considerable discussion among experts and in the society that is due to notable decline in the fertility rate after 2016. Why after a decade of steady birth rate growth, Belarus finds itself again on the edge of demographic crisis and almost continuous “improvement of support measures for families with children” still have not made it possible to stabilize the fertility rate at the level of simple reproduction of the population?
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