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  "path": "/2026/02/24/with-birth-rates-in-free-fall-czechia-faces-demographic-reckoning/",
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  "textContent": "Once one of the continent’s demographic high achievers, the Czech Republic has, in just a few years, experienced a dramatic decline in its fertility rate – the fifth fastest in the world.",
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