Vietnamese business students at Northampton University (L to R) Anh Nguyen, Phuong Nguyen, Tam Nguyen and Oanh Cao visit Hitchin Lavender farm in Arlesey, UK on July 9, 2017, to view and pick lavender. Currently in full bloom, the lavender attracts visitors from far and wide to this popular family run farm. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)

Aerial view of tourists cooling off at a water park in summer on June 27, 2023 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. Zhengzhou Meteorological Observatory on June 27 issued an orange alert for high temperatures. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Year of the Rabbit celebration's in Dublin, Ireland on January 29, 2023: Wang Zhi Ning during her Peking Opera Solo performance. (Photo by Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times)

Athletes compete in the women's 100m semi-final during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 21, 2023. (Photo by Andrej Isakovic/AFP Photo)

A two-week-old hoglet finds an unusual spot to sit at the Happy Hedgehogs rescue centre in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire in the second decade of September 2023. (Photo by James Glossop/The Times)

An Iraqi army cadet participates in “the leap of faith”, from a bridge as part of their training, in Baghdad, Iraq on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

Lola Aylmer, 25, stands inside the artist Gemma Anderson-Tempini's infinite laundry mirrored room, which is part of a transformed Victorian house, in Leeds, UK early November 2023. (Photo by South West News Service)

A pregnant woman poses on June 19, 2018 in Vertou, western France. France had an estimated population of 68.4 million by January 1, 2024, representing a further year-on-year increase of 0.3 percent, limited by a marked drop in the birth rate, the INSEE national statistics bureau of France reported on January 16, 2024. In 2023, 678,000 babies were born in France, 6.6 percent fewer than the previous year, the lowest number of births in any year since 1946. Over the same period, there were 631,000 deaths, down 6.5 percent on 2022, a year marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and episodes of extreme heat. (Photo by Loic Venance/AFP Photo)