We’re desperately short of babies.

Mar 25, 2024 by

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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The invisible pandemic: unplanned childlessness

Mar 5, 2024 by

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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The South Korean conundrum: an ageing society desperate for babies

Feb 19, 2024 by

by Louis T March, Mercator: South Korea is the global birth dearth poster child. A demographic basket case. Every year it claims the record for the world’s lowest fertility rate, now 0.78. Statistics Korea projects a rate of 0.65 by 2025....

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How to get Brits to have more babies

Feb 8, 2024 by

by Madeleine Artmstrong, CapX: The fertility rate in Britain will continue to decline over the next twenty years, according to the latest projections by the Office for National Statistics. In 2022, births in the UK reached their lowest...

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‘Marriage is essentially meaningless if it is easy to get out of’

Jan 28, 2024 by

Miriam Cates interview with Sienna Rodgers, The House: Conservative MP Miriam Cates talks to Sienna Rodgers about population collapse, plus why she thinks all surrogacy should be outlawed and no-fault divorce was a ‘mistake’ It is rare to...

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China is failing to persuade women to have more children. Or any children

Jan 18, 2024 by

by Michael Cook, Mercator: China’s population has declined for the second year in a row, despite desperate government incentives to persuade women to have children. In 2023, the number of people fell by 2.08 million to 1.410 billion. The...

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