A looming baby crunch was laid bare today as figures showed fertility continuing to drop.
Women born in 1979 have a completed family size of 1.95 – compared to 2.12 for their grandmothers and 2.05 for their ‘baby boomer’ mothers.
Although the average number of children has recovered from a low of 1.89 for women born in 1972 and 1973 – the start of Generation X – the Office for National Statistics (ONS) projects a dramatic slump in England and Wales in the coming years.
The 2008-born ‘Generation Z’ is expected to have just 1.48 offspring per woman, while the figure could tumble
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