Yesterday, CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington spoke with the Financial Times about the latest #OfficeForNationalStatistics data on #births in #England and #Wales. The data shows that, in 2025, the number of #babies born fell to the lowest level in almost half a century and continues the long-term trend of #fallingbirths going back over the past decade.

https://www.ft.com/content/78b75687-62d3-4847-a950-7e0a79256390?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#demography #fertility #childbearing #havingchildren #families #birthrates #decliningbirthrates #fallingbirthrates

📉 CPC member Dr Bernice Kuang was called on to discuss whether #fallingbirthrates are really something to worry about, for the latest #TheRestisPolitics newsletter.

Bernice described how declining #birthrates should not provoke panic.

Instead, #policymakers should use them to devise big picture strategies to help #youngpeople have #children if and when they want to, alongside creating solutions to #care for #oldergenerations as they age.

https://mailchi.mp/therestispolitics/birth-rates-trip-non-members-17590395

#fertility #family #genz

🗞️🗞️ Also on the Office for National Statistics #fertility release, CPC-CG member Dr Bernice Kuang discussed her research in The Guardian, which has found that young people are reluctant to start #families “when there is #economic uncertainty and apprehension about the future”.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/27/england-and-wales-fertility-rate-falls-for-third-consecutive-year

#socialscience #population #fallingbirthrates #demography #family #familyplanning #economics #youngpeople #childcare #housing

📻 Speaking about the latest Office for National Statistics #fertility data release yesterday, CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham discussed the #economic and #social factors affecting #birth rates globally and nationally with Evan Davies on #BBC Radio 4 PM - listen from 05:19: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hkt7

#birthrates #ons #lowfertility #fallingbirthrates #family #sociology #migration #socialscience #demography #population

🌐 As we mark #WorldPopulationDay2025, find out more about recent CPC-CG #fertility and #family research providing insights and policy evidence under this year's #UnitedNations theme:

"Empowering #youngpeople to create the #families they want in a fair and hopeful world"

Read the full story - with plenty of further reading material to get your teeth into: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=842

#demography #populationstudies #familyformation #fertilitydecline #birthrates #fallingbirthrates #socialscience

📉 Why are fewer babies being born around the world?
From career goals to rising costs of living, birth rates are declining globally, and the impact is bigger than you think.
Find out what’s behind the drop and what it could mean for the future 🍼🌍

Read the full article here🔗 https://zurl.co/HXLii
#BabyYumYum #BYY #BYYInsights #FamilyPlanning #FutureOfParenting #WhyItMatters#GlobalTrends #FallingBirthRates #ModernParenting

📑 CPC-CG Director Jane Falkingham is a contributor to the NEW UK Parliament POST research briefing on the 'Impacts of #birthrate decline'

It also cites research from CPC-CG members Ann Berrington on #childlessness in the UK and David McCollum on #population sustainability and #geographical inequalities in the context of an #ageingpopulation

Full story: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?action=story&id=835

#demography #fertilitydecline #fallingbirthrates #socialsciences #migration #populationgeography #geography

The news confirmed what some had suspected was coming for years, after watching a decline in the number of children being put up for #adoption, combined with an increasingly closed-off #China which is trying to reverse #FallingBirthrates.

For couples midway through the adoption process, the announcement was crushing.

It breaks us deeply’: anguish as China closes door to #ForeignAdoptions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/19/china-ends-adoptions-international-foreign-intercountry