It’s because of the coronavirus or whatever.
The European Union has recorded its lowest number of births in over 60 years, with a dramatic 5.5 per cent decline from the previous year marking the largest annual drop on record.
Some 3,665,142 babies were born across the EU last year, with several eastern European nations experiencing the steepest falls.
Romania saw births plummet by 13.9 per cent, whilst Poland and the Czech Republic suffered declines of 10.7 and 10 per cent respectively.
Even the bloc’s wealthiest nations didn’t escape the demographic shift, with France recording a 6.6 per cent drop and Germany seeing births fall by 6.2 per cent.
The trend mirrors similar record-low fertility rates in England and Wales, China and the US.
Professor Melinda Mills from Oxford University attributes the decline to several key factors affecting women’s choices around parenthood.
“Women have got more education. They’ve entered into the labour market, and they find it hard to combine it with unpaid childcare. They often have to do a lot of childcare at home,” she explained.
These bitches seem to have a lot of spare time
The trend of delaying parenthood until the early to mid-30s is creating additional challenges.
“You are starting to have children when you are biologically less able to have children,” Mills noted. “You might be able to have one child but because you’re starting so late biologically, it’s really difficult to have more children. People are getting caught out on that where they’re just running out of time.”
While Norwegian demography professor Arnstein Aassve pointed to the rising financial burden of modern parenting as another key factor.
“When I was a kid, after school you were asked to go outside and play. Now parenthood is about a big investment and it’s costing a hell of a lot. And it is going to cost you money for about 20 to 25 years,” he said.
Young Europeans’ attitudes towards family size are also shifting significantly.
“When we ask people what would be your ideal family, parenthood is very important. But whether you have one, two or three children, that seems to be becoming a lot less important,” Aassve explained.
This “economics” argument is just total bullshit. The poorest countries in the world have the highest birthrates. It’s pretty much a 1-to-1 correlation. You don’t even need to look at other countries to see the poorest people in Europe – the immigrants – are having the most children.
The birthrate collapse is the result of women’s liberation, period. These whores want to dance around and get fucked. They do not want the party to end.
Anyway, I thought they wanted people to stop breeding because it would change the weather? They said they could turn the earth into a solid sheet of ice if they reduced the population.