(SRN NEWS)-In an industrialized country, every woman of childbearing age needs to have an average of 2.1 kids to keep the population level. In Britain the current birth rate is 1.4. In Scotland it’s 1.3. Academics and policymakers are sounding the alarm, warning that the U.K.’s generous welfare state will be unsustainable if the population declines. […]
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Experts in the United Kingdom are worried about the birth rate
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(SRN NEWS)-In an industrialized country, every woman of childbearing age needs to have an average of 2.1 kids to keep the population level. In Britain the current birth rate is 1.4. In Scotland it’s 1.3. Academics and policymakers are sounding the alarm, warning that the U.K.’s generous welfare state will be unsustainable if the population declines. Low birth rates are the rule throughout all of the industrialized world now. The U.S. birth rate is 1.6.