Dying Society: Deaths of UK-Born Overtake Births to UK-Born Mothers
by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart:
Deaths of British-born people outstripped deaths to British born mothers for only the third time since records began in 1838.
There were only 471,476 live births to British-born mothers in England and Wales in 2018, compared to 487,618 deaths of British-born people, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reported by The Telegraph.
Deaths of British-born people have only outnumbered births to British-born people twice before, according to the ONS, in years of significantly greater economic turmoil than the country faces today — namely 1976 and 1977.
Fertility rates for British-born women have been declining year on year, having fallen from 1.71 children per woman in 2017 to 1.63 per woman in 2018; a nadir since statistics began being tracked officially in 2004.