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A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births. 67 of the 69 children ...
Children were among the lowest group of deaths in the world due to Covid-19. About 3.7 million deaths occurred and only 0.4% of them occurred in adolescents under 20 years of age making about 13,400 deaths in adolescents. Out of that small proportion, 42% occurred in children under the age of 9 years old.
The U.S. population almost quadrupled during the 20th century – at a growth rate of about 1.3% a year – from about 76 million in 1900 to 281 million in 2000. [17] It is estimated to have reached the 200 million mark in 1967, and the 300 million mark on October 17, 2006.
Soviet famine of 1932–1933, with areas where the effects of famine were most severe shaded. The deaths of 5.7 [26] to perhaps 7.0 million people [27] [28] in the Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet collectivization of agriculture are included among the victims of repression during the period of Stalin by some historians.
Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years. [ 1] The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; population counts from a census, and estimation through specialized demographic ...
The first reports of forced deportations to Russia as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine came mid-March 2022, during the siege of Mariupol. [20] The same month, Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has stated that a group of Ukrainian children transferred to Russia from Mariupol had initially asserted their Ukrainian identity, but that it had since transformed into a ...
The Total fertility rate is the average number of children born per mother. In 2021, fertility levels high were found in sub-Saharan Africa (4.6 births per woman), Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand (3.1), Northern Africa and Western Asia (2.8), and Central and Southern Asia (2.3).
Children in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, nearly all Jewish, were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by or as a direct consequence of Nazi actions. The Nazis advocated killing children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in ...