Surprisingly, the Covid-19 epidemic has not resulted in a boom in hugs or births.
Contrary to what sociologists predicted, the birth rate has not jumped following the spring containment.
She even backed down.
In Italy, in December, nine months after the first confinement, births plunged by nearly 22%, notes a study carried out in fifteen cities by the statistics agency Istat.
Across the Channel, imports of baby carriages plunged last year.
In the United States, the Brookings Institute estimates that there could be between 300,000 and 500,000 fewer births in 2021, a decline of 8% to 14%.
In Germany, the IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) estimates that the drop in births could even reach 15% this year, "
which would correspond to the figures for the Spanish flu or the 1929 crisis
", underlines John Plassard, specialist in investment of the Mirabaud bank.
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