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    [OC] Fertility rate (number of children per woman) in the main English-speaking countries over the past decades
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    [OC] Fertility rate (number of children per woman) in the main English-speaking countries over the past decades

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    1. Sisyphuss5MinBreak on

      Interesting result. This highlights that things were generally stable until about ~2009. After that, every single country here tilts downward.

      My guess is that it’s the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Recession afterwards that instigated this slide. Of course, there are underlying causes fueling the drop in fertility, but that crisis is likely the proximate cause.

    4. Poo_Poo_La_Foo on

      I feel like “fertility rate” is a misnomer.

      The number of children that are born does not = the fertility of the population.

      Lots of people are perfectly fertile but choose not to have children.

      Not making that your problem, OP, just having a gripe 🙃

      Edit: also, Ireland be fuckin’ in early 2020!

    5. internet_wandererrr on

      does this count adoption/ artificial insemination and exclude surrogate motherhood?

    6. dr_sjk on

      Nigeria looking at that phrase ‘main English -speaking’ thinking “what did we do wrong?”

    8. Approved-Toes-2506 on

      For nearly all middle income countries, fertility began to decline after around 2015, but for these countries the decline started around 2010 and at a slower pace.

      Bottom line is, something happened during the 2010s that completely changed the landscape of society, leading to lower fertility globally.