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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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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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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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by Harry Blanchard, TCW: […] As Christians, the question which ought most deeply to concern us is not whether the disestablishment of the C of E would be a rupture of tradition or historical continuity (in fact, both could...
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