Britain has entered a birth rate crisis

Jul 19, 2024 by

by Ross Clark, Spectator: Few will notice, yet this year England and Wales are almost certainly going to cross a remarkable threshold: the number of deaths will exceed the number of births. In the year to mid 2023 – figures for which have...

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Is the fear of having children bringing the West to the brink of extinction?

Jul 9, 2024 by

by David Thunder, Mercator: We are living at a time when a large segment of the world — particularly societies in Europe, North America and Asia — no longer views having children as something desirable or worthwhile. Whereas before,...

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The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

Jul 4, 2024 by

by Phillip Inman and Jedidajah Otte, Observer: Costs, the climate crisis and choice are all factors in a demographic revolution presenting huge challenges for government. The falling birthrate threatens a disaster so costly no politician...

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Britain’s birth rate halves as wealthy countries face ‘low fertility future’

Jun 22, 2024 by

by Lucy Burton and Ben Butcher, Telegraph: UK hit by 20.5pc drop in number of newborns in last decade – the largest in G7. Britain’s birth rate has fallen to a record low as a growing number of women shun parenthood. New figures show that...

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Global Depopulation – Did Global Fertility Rates Fall Below Replacement Levels in 2023

Jun 4, 2024 by

from The Naked Emperor: An AEI article on the latest United Nations data warns that global fertility rates are collapsing. And faster than most have predicted. Author of the article, Patrick Norrick, says fertility rates are collapsing...

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‘Our future depends on us having plenty of children’

Jun 2, 2024 by

by James Beal, The Times: The pronatalists who warn that a collapsing birthrate is an existential threat to western democracy. Those behind the pronatalist movement in Britain have said that the welfare state will not remain sustainable...

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