Iran: December 31, 2004

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Another sign of the widespread despair in Iran is a sharp slowdown in the population growth rate. The rate declined from 3.2 to 1.2 percent.  The government says this is all part of a population control program, but young couples are not having kids because of poor economic conditions and political repression. 

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