
France’s Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
For a long time, France was able to boast of a fertility rate close to 2 children per woman in the 2000s, its fertility rate is now around 1.8.
For a long time, France was able to boast of a fertility rate close to 2 children per woman in the 2000s, its fertility rate is now around 1.8.
Speaking of the need among some people to repeat the mistakes of the past: the saga of Bud Light and its recent public-relations disaster is being amended with another chapter.
Twenty years ago, Central Europe had the lowest birth rate in the EU. The region has seen the greatest improvement in recent years. At the same time, female employment is also at its peak, the at-risk-of-poverty rate is much lower, and real earnings are rising steadily.
“We can’t give in to the idea of ethnic replacement: the Italians are having fewer children and we’re replacing them with someone else. That is not the way,” Francesco Lollobrigida, Italy’s Agriculture Minister said.
With fewer than 400,000 babies born last year, Italy has the third lowest fertility rate in the OECD.
There is one major omission from all the discussions on pension reform: the question of the birth rate and its corollary, family policy.
In the first six months of 2022, Spain saw its birth rate sink to new historic lows, while its mortality rate increased 5% compared to
Not everyone is as elated by the prospect of non-biological ‘reproduction.’ Jordan Peterson called it “more utter anti-human insanity.”
Official figures from the Irish government have revealed that female non-Irish national residents—despite composing slightly more than one-twentieth of the total population—gave birth to well over one-fifth of the children born in 2021.
For the eighth consecutive year, births in Spain declined last year, bringing the number of newly born children to its lowest figure since the government began recording figures 80 years ago.