Financial insecurity caused by the COVID pandemic has overlaid ongoing issues already contributing to Australia’s falling fertility rate, one demographer says. covid19 fertility population
Uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to Australia’s fertility rate falling to its lowest level on record with warnings it may never recover, leaving the nation with a recession-sized hole in its population make-up.
Across NSW, there was 3.4 per cent fall, or 3330 babies. Tasmania defied the trend, up by 1 per cent or 54 births. “Potential parents’ active choices to start a family or the size of that family is slipping away from them and that will have long-term repercussions for them and for the country. It’s a similar story in the city’s west. While Parramatta’s population has swelled by 100,569 over the past 10 years, the number of babies born has fallen by 134.
Not one part of Melbourne now has a fertility rate above 2, with falls in growing areas such as the south-east and western suburbs.
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