For a year, we scrutinized the tables, dissected the graphs, observed the curves, monitored the "incidence rates", listed the "contact cases", counted and recounted the masks, the tests, the intensive care beds, and, well, unfortunately too often, too, mourned our dear departed.
But who in this deadly whirlwind thought of babies?
To discover
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INSEE today reveals the sad performance of a forgotten indicator: that of births, which is undergoing a historic drop.
The birth rate has collapsed, also a victim of the coronavirus.
Everyone would quickly measure, if we were not collectively obsessed with the pandemic, the seriousness of the news, as it is true that the fate of a country is intimately linked to its demography, sealed in its vitality.
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Should we recall it?
In the long term, the drop in births affects the entire economy, of which it upsets all the fundamentals - pensions, employment, taxation, innovation -, it hinders growth, opens up the
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