Pandemic curbs Europe’s birthrate

In addition to killing a lot of people, COVID-19 has apparently caused a dramatic reduction in European folks having babies.

FT:

France’s national statistics institute was one of the first to publish figures for the number of children born in January — nine months after the country was stuck in its first Covid-19 lockdown — and the provisional data show a startling decline: there were 53,900 births in the month, 13 per cent down on the figure for January 2020. 

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Source: https://boingboing.net/2021/03/10/pandemic-curbs-europes-birthrate.html
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