by Cameron Roy and Oliver Price, Daily Mail
Interactive map shows how many children women have in YOUR area
Fertility rates have plunged in every local authority in England and Wales over the past decade.
Alarming figures laying bare the ‘baby bust’ reveal some boroughs have seen a 60 per cent decline in women having children since 2013.
Experts fear the freefalling rates will trigger an ‘underpopulation’ crisis, potentially leaving Britain reliant on immigration to prop up our economy.
Women in England and Wales, on average, now only have 1.44 children.
This is the lowest since records began in the 30s and half of levels seen during the mid-60s baby boom.
Almost a third of all 591,000 babies born were to foreign mothers in 2023, the latest year with full data available.
But the share exceeded 75 per cent in parts of London considered settling spots for immigrants for generations.
MailOnline’s audit uncovered that none of the 300-plus authorities had a fertility rate exceeding the replacement level.