Canada’s fertility rate has hit its lowest level in recorded history – National | 24CA News
The Canadian fertility price has hit its lowest degree since Statistics Canada started amassing information greater than a century in the past.
The company launched its most up-to-date numbers Wednesday, displaying the start price fell to 1.33 youngsters per girl in 2022.
It dropped from 1.43 the earlier 12 months and continues a “downward trend [that] began in 2009.”
This is a nationwide trajectory with start charges reaching file lows in 10 out of the 13 provinces and territories.
While start charges have been steadily declining for greater than a decade in Canada, the downward development sped up “at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic,” based on Statistics Canada.
“Canada seems to be moving into this club of nations with birth rates that could be characterized as ‘ultra-low,’” stated Don Kerr, a demographics professor at King’s College at Western University in London, Ont., throughout an interview with Global News earlier this month.
Every G7 nation skilled a drop in fertility charges between 2021 and 2021, aside from the United States.
Even France, which appeared to be an outlier within the West with higher-than-average start charges, is experiencing an analogous problem.
Earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron promised to improve parental depart pay to encourage the French to have extra youngsters, after start charges plummeted to their lowest level because the finish of the Second World War.
— with information from Reuters
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