Britain’s fertility crisis -we need to get serious before it’s too late
by Matt Goodwin:
Thoughts on the scale of the problem and possible solutions.
Here are two shocking facts about Britain’s population that you might have missed in recent weeks.
The first is that deaths now outnumber births. For the first time in half a century, there are more funerals than baby celebrations.
The second is that our nation’s fertility rate has now plunged to 1.44, which is the lowest since records began, in 1938.
A fertility rate of 1.44 is well below what is called the ‘replacement rate’, of 2.1, which is needed for a population to replace itself.
And this decline, unless we change direction, will only accelerate. One study forecasts that the fertility rate will slump to 1.3 by the end of this century. Our population is ageing and shrinking.
Although the UK does not gather fertility rate by ethnicity, we also know that women born in the UK have ‘half a child’ less than those born outside.
Our majority community could be close to halving every generation, which will radically transform our country.
This isn’t just a problem for the UK.
Too few children are being born in countries as different as Jamaica and China, Germany and Thailand.
But in Britain, our hapless political leaders on both the Left and Right have long lulled people into a sense of false security, claiming that we can continue underproducing the next generation and resolve the shortage of people through mass immigration.
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