The Philippines recorded fewer births and more deaths from January to August this year, compared to the same period last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on Thursday.
According to latest figures from the agency, there were 703,400 births in the country during the first eight months of this year, lower than 981,270 recorded during the same period in 2020.
While there is already a “decreasing trend” in the number of births from 2015 to 2020 , the pandemic could have dissuaded couples from getting married by as much as almost 50%, and from getting pregnant. ABS-CBN Data Analytics Head Edson Guido, who has been monitoring various data and numbers related to COVID-19, agreed.
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