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- On Sunday, Iran's Deputy Health Minister Hamed Barakati told the Islamic Republic News Agency that Iran's state hospitals would no longer provide contraceptives or vasectomies.
- The decision was made to try and boost Iran's population, which he said was currently on track to have a third of its population over 60 by 2050.
- The average family in Iran currently has 1.7 children. To maintain a population requires 2.2 children per family.
- Iran's population growth has been something of a roller coaster. Between 1968 and 1979, the population rose from 27 million to 55 million, boosted by the government encouraging people to have large families.
- But concerns that the economy could not handle the rapidly expanding population led the government to impose a successful campaign to slow the population and from the 1980s until 2012, Iran had the largest and quickest drop in fertility ever.
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Contraceptives and vasectomies will no longer be offered in Iran's state hospitals as the nation attempts to boost its dwindling population.
On Sunday, Iran's Deputy Health Minister Hamed Barakati told the Islamic Republic News Agency the measures had to be taken to increase its population, according to The Guardian.
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