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Turkmenistan: Fewer Large Families

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 04:37 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Turkmenistan
Topics:: Development, Humanitarian

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Maciula wonders if depopulation is a real problem as the Turkmenistan Chronicle suggests in a recent article, and compares the country’s population growth rate with that of neighbouring states.

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