Below EU average
Baby bust
Meanwhile, the number of deaths increased by 2.8 percent to 35,804.
There were 591,072 live births recorded in England and Wales last year.
“Heartbreaking”
Time to turn away from materialism and imperialism
Lessons for Ireland
The world’s major economies are being hit hard by demographic change. From China to Europe, they may well grow old before they grow any richer. Over the next three decades, the global number of older persons is projected to more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion persons in 2050. Currently, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia are home to the […]
It is incredible how rare babies are becoming in the Republic of Korea. In 2018, the country’s total fertility rate (the number of babies a woman will have on average in her lifetime) crashed down to 0.98. That’s far below the rate of 2.1 considered necessary for a stable population and is about the lowest […]