The French demographic exception was shattered by the announcement by INSEE that women in France have on average only 1.68 children during their lifetime.
We are very far from the fertility rate of 2.1 necessary to ensure the replacement of one generation by another: 2.1, and not 2, taking into account the ratio of girls to boys at birth (100 girls for 105 boys ) and mortality of women up to childbearing age!
Thanks to a higher birth rate among immigrant women and a protective social system, we wrongly thought we could escape the birth depression that has been affecting all developed countries for two decades.
“A third of women in East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore) will remain childless
,” warns a study by the Vienna Institute of Demography.
Also read: How Europe is trying to “rearm” its birth rate
France is therefore falling into line, especially as the decline in birth rates affects not only economically advanced countries, but the entire planet.
“Two-thirds of the world’s population…
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