The UN announced a historic minimum birth rate in the world
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Birth rates in many countries around the world have reached record lows, according to a new report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). One in five respondents admitted that they cannot have as many children as they would like, mainly due to the high cost of living and financial difficulties.
UNFPA conducted a study among 14,000 people in 14 countries, including the United States , India, Brazil and Germany. The respondents named difficulties in combining work and parenthood, weak support from the state, HEALTH problems, and political instability as the main obstacles to having children.
"The world has entered a phase of major fertility decline. <...> Fertility rates are falling in large part because many people feel they cannot have the family they want, and that is a real crisis," said UNFPA Executive DIRECTOR Natalia Kanem.
According to the organization's forecasts, the world's population will grow by 3.1 billion people over the next 90 years, with the main growth expected in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Europe and Japan, on the contrary, the population will begin to decline by the middle of the 21st century.
In 2023, 3.67 million children were born in the EU countries, 5.4% fewer than the year before. This is the largest annual decline in the birth rate recorded by Eurostat since 1961. The average age of women at the birth of their first child has risen to 29.8 years.
The birth rate in the EU has fallen to 1.38 children per woman of childbearing age. The lowest rates were recorded in Malta - 1.06, Spain - 1.12 and Lithuania - 1.18. The leaders in terms of birth rate were Bulgaria - 1.81, France - 1.66 and Hungary - 1.55).
The birth rate in the EU has been declining since 2008. Experts attribute this trend to inflation, the pandemic and climate anxiety. In 2022, the number of newborns in the EU fell below 4 million for the first time since 1960.
In January, the Ministry of Health announced a decline in the birth rate in RUSSIA to the level of 2000 - one of the lowest in modern history.
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