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by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand: Throughout the West and beyond we are witnessing a steep decline in marriage and birth rates. Greece’s birth rate fell by 30 per cent from 2011 to 2021 to under 84,000 per year, slipping below...
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by Alessandra Bocchi, The Critic: A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump. The influence of religion on fertility is undeniable. Since the dawn of Western society — first through various...
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by Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski, Artillery Row: Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation. Famously, older people tend to be more interested in politics than the young and turn out to vote in...
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by Miriam Cates, Artillery Row: This week a study in the Lancet revealed that the UK now has a Total Fertility Rate of just 1.49 children per woman. Total Fertility Rate is the average number of babies that each woman has given birth to...
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by Robert Colville, The Times: The saddest thing is many families can’t afford to have them. In the Japanese village of Ichinono, just north of Osaka, there is a little boy called Kuranosuke. Kuranosuke is a very special child. He goes...
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by Louis T March, Mercator: First off, it’s that time of year: 2023 population data are pouring in. A surfeit of statistics surfaces somewhere every week. Nirvana for demography nerds! Parsing numbers is boring, but some startling stats...
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