Birth rates halve in richer countries as costs weigh, OECD report says

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Birth rates halve in richer countries as costs weigh, OECD report says
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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, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.Many in OECD member countries were now choosing to have children later in life or not at all, it said in a paper released on Thursday. "Both young men and women increasingly find meaning in life outside of parenthood," it added.

Particularly low total fertility rates were measured in Korea, at 0.7 and Italy and Spain, each with 1.2 children per woman. The highest were in Israel on 2.9, followed by Mexico and France, each with 1.8.The average age of women giving birth rose from 28.6 in 2000 to 30.9 in 2022 in the club of major industrialized economies.

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