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TIRANA, March 30 – Albania’s estimated number of newborn babies last year fell to 31,733, the lowest figure on record, further contributing to the ageing and shrinking of the country’s population, official data published by the Institute of Statistics showed Wednesday. According to INSTAT, the number of births in 2016 was nearly 1,000 births less than 2015 and 4,000 births less than in 2014. In 1929, when Albania established its first civil registry, the number of births was over 30,000 while in the 80s the country had over 60,000 births a year. Data shows that in 1990, the number of…
