Birth rates in the world's rich economies have significantly decreased over the past decades, with the average number of children per woman dropping from 3.3 in 1960 to 1.5 in 2022. Countries like South Korea and Japan have recorded extremely low fertility rates, with South Korea having the lowest birth rate at about 0.7 children per woman. This trend is leading to concerns about a 'low fertility future' and potential social and economic upheaval.
The OECD’s latest study found that birth rates have fallen to below replacement level. https://t.co/KKVxLjGBxR
The mean number of children per woman across advanced economies has fallen from 3.3 in 1960 to 1.5 in 2022 according to a new @OECD study. The age at which mothers have their first child has climbed from 26.5 in 2000 to 29.5 in 2022. https://t.co/NEuyxTRFVR https://t.co/7hL9S4VD8m
BREAKING: Birth rates in the world’s rich economies have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low. https://t.co/ESwsfRlwyv
I'm sympathetic to this argument, but birth rates are dropping all over the developed world, in places with high and low housing costs. https://t.co/zHJjyAa5O2
The Financial Times reports that birth rates in the world's rich economies 'have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low', from 3.3 in 1960 to 1.5 in 2022, according to OECD data.
Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low via @FT https://t.co/24t93WYXPJ
In rich countries, people have stopped having children: fertility rates have halved in the last 60 years, heralding social and economic upheaval. https://t.co/GHvYY2zEv3
Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world's richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children, an OECD report has said. https://t.co/Mtev8fIswk
The fertility drop even in developed countries is really quite something https://t.co/QT4DdxlaHa
🍼 Britain’s birth rate halves as wealthy countries face ‘low fertility future’ https://t.co/HB5zf7LIm3
One of the most important datapoints of all. The total fertility rate is now at record lows - and still falling. In the 60s it was 3.3 children per woman in the developed world. Today: 1.5. & while the UK used to be slightly higher than the OECD average it’s now slightly lower. https://t.co/yszU5Hg6xs
Birth rates in the world’s rich economies have more than halved since 1960 to hit a record low Average # of children per woman across the 38 most industrialized nations has fallen from 3.3 in 1960 to 1.5 in 2022, per a OECD study published Thursday Fertility rate is now well… https://t.co/KaCkLbQedD https://t.co/lvxaNlcFgE
“The lowest fertility rates were recorded in southern Europe and Japan at about 1.2 children per woman, with South Korea having the lowest birth rate at about 0.7.” https://t.co/uWb3UXuUPj