Those responsible for the birth rate crisis in the UK were found (4 photos)
Experts are sounding the alarm, the birth rate is falling catastrophically. We are now talking about the birth of children by British citizens, migrants who have not received citizenship do not count.
The level is now at its lowest level in the entire history of observations. To maintain the current population, the birth rate must exceed 2. Meanwhile, last year in England and Wales the average birth rate was 1.44. London has the lowest birth rate - an average of 0.55 children per woman.
The birth rate for women in their 20s has fallen by almost 80 per cent since the 1960s, from 182 births per 1,000 women to just 38.6 births per 1,000 women today. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also show that the average age of parents has reached an all-time high of 30.9 for women and 33.7 for men.
This chart shows the rise in the number of women freezing their eggs.
At the same time, a record number of women are freezing their eggs in the hope that later, someday, they will have children and a family. Experts are sure that this situation in the country was influenced by several factors, such as the constantly rising price of real estate, the inability to afford a decent level of child care, women's desire to make a career and, the cherry on the cake, the men themselves.
Yes, yes, that's right, men themselves are to blame for the demographic crisis. They are simply not ready for traditional family life.
Anthropologist Marcia Inhorn from Yale University conducted a large-scale study and found that heterosexual English women mostly want to start a family, but are either lonely or simply cannot afford to have children while in an unstable relationship. This is what pushes women to freeze their eggs.
Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison has revealed that she also went through egg freezing last year because asking her current husband Erkan Ramadan to "be a dad when he wasn't really ready" would have been "quite unfair and irresponsible".