Boing Boing: Pandemic curbs Europe’s birthrate

Boing Boing: Pandemic curbs Europe’s birthrate. “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.”