Covid-19 crisis: should we be alarmed by the drop in the birth rate?
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The health crisis has caused a drop in the birth rate.
Some countries record rates close to post-WWII.
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By: Romain Auzouy
21 mins
-23% in Taiwan, -20% in Spain, -13% in France… the figures for the start of 2021 indicate a sharp drop in the birth rate.
Between health fears, economic uncertainty and a generally anxiety-provoking climate: all observers agree that the coronavirus crisis is at the origin of this situation.
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But, the reality may be different depending on the region of the world.
Is this demographic decline a new marker of inequalities?
How far will this fall go and what could be the consequences on the world balance?
With our guest
Gilles Pison
, professor at the National Museum of Natural History, associate researcher at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), author of “
Atlas of the world population”
(Autrement, 2019).
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