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Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada [Unofficial]13h ago

iPhone may be one factor in falling birth rates, researchers say

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11902945/birth-rates-decline-fall-phone-study/

Miss Gayle 3d ago

Here we have a classic example of the difference between causation and correlation.

This article is titled: Could the iPhone be to blame for America's plunging birth rate?

Ummm, no.

You know what else happened in 2007, right? The economic crash that saw millions of people lose their homes, their cars, their good paying jobs, and their future, essentially.

Of course they don't want kids. The economy has never really recovered.

Link: https://sherwood.news/world/could-the-iphone-be-to-blame-for-americas-plunging-birth-rate/

#BirthRate #Economy #Correlation

stoicmike Jun 6

#choices #women #men #families #birthrate #babies #children #parenting

Kelvin Jackson (Kei)Jun 3

Birthrates have declined since _long_ before social media. The #birthrate graph shows us when people started actually believing their children would live to adulthood, and when society started actually treating women as people.

Stop whining about a good thing and focus on increasing #immigration.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 29

Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will
Record-low #US #birthrate could be only temporary as today’s young women postpone #pregnancy.
One of the biggest drivers of the delay in childbearing is widely considered to be a success story: the decline of #teenpregnancy, which had been unusually high in the United States. The change is attributed to more effective contraception, education about pregnancy prevention and less sex among teenagers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/upshot/births-decline-older-mothers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cVA.j6mI.43y-JlLGZk3R&smid=url-share

Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will

There are reasons to believe the record-low U.S. birthrate could be only temporary as today’s young women postpone pregnancy.

The New York Times

💧🌏 Greg Cocks May 12

Half Of European Municipalities Have Fewer Inhabitants Than 60 Years Ago
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https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/2026/04/21/die-haelfte-der-europaeischen-gemeinden-hat-weniger-einwohner-als-vor-60-jahren/ <-- shared technical / spatiotemporal article
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https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/37fcacbf-12e2-4b31-b1af-83117a74b2c7 <-- shared European Joint Research Centre (JRC) ARDECO Local Population Time-Series – 1961-2024
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #emptyspain #demographics #population #agingpopulation #declining #birthrate #immigration #emigration #shrinking #interactive #webmap #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #Europe #geostatistics #logistics #rural #urban #city #transportation #cost #economics #services #infrastructure #workers #qualityoflife #planning
@JointResearchCentre #JRC @europeancommission @correctiv_org

Paul Houle May 6

🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html

#japan #women #birthrate #fertility #education #culture

Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline

The rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates across developed East Asian societies strain pension and health care systems, threaten economic growth, and reshape entire societies. To tackle this issue, governments in Japan and across East Asia have invested heavily in pronatalist measures, but often with limited success. For instance, Japan's government has repeatedly expanded childcare subsidies and parental leave provisions, yet the total fertility rate hit a record low of 1.20 in 2024.

Phys.org