INSEE recorded a dizzying drop in the number of births compared to the previous year.

If the pandemic and containment seem to be the cause, the demographer Hervé Le Bras explains that a downward trend in the birth rate was already at work and that family projects will be postponed until the end of the crisis.

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According to INSEE, births in France fell by 13% in January 2021 compared to January 2020, a figure unprecedented since 1975 which testifies to the strong feeling of anxiety that dominates with the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. .

Guest from Europe 1 on Friday, the demographer and director of studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Hervé Le Bras, reassured: "In a situation of fear, panic, uncertainty, couples postpone the birth of a child until a little later. "

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