#decliningbirthrates — Public Fediverse posts
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🎤 CPC member Dr Bernice Kuang was interviewed by #AlJazeera for a documentary examining the forces driving the global decline in #birthrates and asking what #fallingfertility means for the future.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/6arz6gdwxgM?si=w5c-ws3OKdFJ_2-v
#demography #socialpolicy #populationbust #decliningbirthrates #generationsandGendersurvey
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📑 NEW #HouseofLords Library briefing references a recent #Economics Observatory article by CPC-CG members Professors Ann Berrington and Hill Kulu on the reasons behind #decliningbirthrates "reflecting on empirical evidence from the ‘#generations and #gender’ surveys, they said that 'most people retain a firm desire to have #children but that this desire is not being matched by actual behaviour'."
Read the full report: https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/declining-birth-rates-and-population-ageing-impact-and-government-response/#fn-10
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Yesterday, CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington spoke with the Financial Times about the latest #OfficeForNationalStatistics data on #births in #England and #Wales. The data shows that, in 2025, the number of #babies born fell to the lowest level in almost half a century and continues the long-term trend of #fallingbirths going back over the past decade.
https://www.ft.com/content/78b75687-62d3-4847-a950-7e0a79256390?syn-25a6b1a6=1
#demography #fertility #childbearing #havingchildren #families #birthrates #decliningbirthrates #fallingbirthrates
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📉 #Education, #economic uncertainty and changing #genderroles are among the factors that have played a part in falling #fertility rates. Keeping the combination of causes in mind is essential for designing effective #policy responses
CPC-CG members Professor Ann Berrington and Professor Hill Kulu examine the evidence in a new #Economics Observatory article out today ⤵️ https://www.economicsobservatory.com/from-costs-to-culture-whats-behind-falling-fertility-in-rich-countries
#fallingfertility #decliningbirthrates #demography #socialsciene #birthrates #pronatalist #pronatal
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“#Pronatalist policies have been shown as ‘impotent’ in budging the long-term #fertility rates. The root problems are #economic uncertainty, problems with #housing, #childcare availability and #gender #inequality in the household," said Connecting Generations Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills MBE in today's The Telegraph:
#demography #population #birthrates #decliningbirthrates #socialscience #socialsciences #russia #ukraine #conflict #demographiccrisis
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The obsession with reducing immigration seems to be entirely illogical.
In 2021, the last year I could find figures for, the non-immigration related population change in the UK was around 30,000. Not enough to prop up the "forever growth" policies of our capitalist society.
So, we NEED immigration to top up that number.
500k, or even 1m more people in a year is not actually that many for a country with population 67m.