My guess is there’s multiple factors at play here. But cost of living is certainly a big one.
National Post- Canada’s birth rate has dropped off a cliff (and it’s likely because nobody can afford housing)
Statistics Canada confirmed last week that 351,679 babies were born in 2022 — the lowest number of live births since 345,044 births were recorded in 2005.
The disparity is all the more notable given that Canada had just 32 million people in 2005, as compared to the 40 million it counted by the end of 2022. In 2005, it was already at historic lows for Canada to have a fertility rate of 1.57 births per woman. But given the 2022 figures, that fertility rate has now sunk to 1.33.
Sterility among the jabbed. It will come out
It is already out, it reads like a “seek and destroy” mission.
COVID-19 Vaccines: The Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes and Menstrual Function
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 28 Number 1 Spring 2023 pg 28-40
“When normalized by time-available, doses-given, or number
of persons vaccinated, all COVID-19 vaccine Adverse Events far exceed the
safety signal on all recognized thresholds.
These results necessitate a worldwide moratorium on the
use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy.”
Statistically speaking a bio weapon by every measure.
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You walk into a bar, nightclub, a social gathering place, there are 100 people in the room
1/2 are the other sex, 1/2 are your sex, if you want kids, it’s best to avoid the other 1/2, whichever you are.
20 of the 50 smoke, or have issues like excessive gambling, drinking, and have been in the bar every night of the past month, 10 of them need to lose or gain 30 lbs in order to look human again, 10 are hideous, leaving 10 in the room, of which 5 don’t want any kids, leaving 5.
Which 5? maybe 1 wants a family, maybe that one isn’t jabbed, while gov’t stats say 80% in the room were jabbed, and possibly with a student loan of $30k to pay off before they can start saving $40k for a house downpayment … .
Now ask yourself why people aren’t looking for anything more than a hook up in tier 2 Canada
Totally anecdotal – my nieces of child-bearing age have mentioned that couples who have been jabbed are having problems with miscarriages and getting pregnant.
Totally anecdotal … my son and his wife are expecting their first child in Feb (everyone doing well) … however they had one miscarriage just prior, and required treatment.
They’re both “heavily” jabbed … I don’t know how many boosters …
Has anyone gone on the dating apps and seen the parade of tattooed, nose-ringed, snarky, entitled, emotionally- and chemically-dysregulated females out there? And female friends tell me that what they see among the “men” isn’t much better – a bunch of pathetic, simping, beta-cucks. This may also have something to do with things.
One commentator recently noted that they’re not even sure if men and women even like each other very much anymore. They may be onto something…
What’s to like?
I rest my case
The son is in a relationship with a non-binary.
He’s in love with a couple of biological males pretending to be the other gender whom recently married each other.
The daughter thinks she is queer.
The public education system has done its job.
Que sera sera….
Your kids have your genes and you had supervision of them for their formative years. Maybe you should take a look at yourself. Just saying.
Decline in fertility among western nations has been going on for more than 150 years. It’s been a trend first noted in France in the early 19th century. There are a host of factors that cause this, but the largest single cause is urbanization. Children are not a family economic asset in cities the way they are on farms. So people have fewer children.
The most extreme case of this decline in fertility is Japan. It has a fertility rate of about 1.1.
As to the 2022 statistics, calculations made on data at the end of a data series mean nothing. It takes a number of years to see if the trend is maintained or changed.
Japan will cease to exist as a Japanese nation in my childrens’ lifetime. Divine retribution for their behaviour in WW2. Ditto Germany. Interestingly, Ukraine will not be “Ukrainian” much longer either. Their birth rate has utterly collapsed, and half the population has left the country and won’t be returning. Hooking up with American “culture” really is a demographic death sentence.
Meanwhile Russia is going to be giving free acreages to families with at least 3 kids, with parents that have been legally married for at least 10 years. THAT is how you get sh*t done. Try getting that past any Western Supreme Court system.
“Japan will cease to exist as a Japanese nation in my childrens’ lifetime. ”
Yes, demographically it’s disappearing. Japan has earned this because, as the most racist nation on Earth, it’s violently opposed to immigration of anyone. Only immigration can reverse Japan’s implosion. Japan doesn’t do immigration. During WW2 like Germany it relied on exploiting all its neighbours for slave labour in death camps. Japan’s hostility to all outside peoples long predates WW2 and its subsequent Americanization. So it’s to be expected that the hatred is returned back on Japan.
Russia is no model for getting anything right. It’s so bad there that young Russians of both genders have been fleeing over the border into the Baltic republics since early 2021 for obvious reasons.
BS wrt to Japan. Its population was under 40 million until 20th century and is now at 125 million.
You sound like Freedland who thinks immigration is secret sauce to get GDP up. She is talking total GDP not GDP/person which is what matters. Who cares if you have a big GDP in total but everyone is poor. 2022 Japan had 800,000 births. So what if Japan stabilizes at 50 million people? That is okay. So is 25 million people.
BTW Canada was just fine when we had 20 or 25 million people. Why do we need 40 million? The globalists want us to have +100 million. No thanks. Tell me how that improves the personal well being of existing Canadians.
@ cgh:
Funny, the Russians I know have been fleeing the Baltics States, back to Russia. Latvian-born, Lithuanian-born, and even a couple from East Poland. So, I guess there is some back and forth. But remember, Russia’s birthrate has stabilised, and I think giving free acreages to couples with at least 3 kids and who have been married at least 10 years hits mutiple target points.
F++k immigration, look how well that has worked in France and Sweden. The Japanese don’t want that, now do they? Most sane people don’t.
So what’s YOUR solution?
It is a world wide phenomenon. And it is a long time trend.
Ask the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Americans, and on and on.
If there is no corresponding rise in abortions, then as misfit newf pointed out, it’s likely due to the clot shots.
The amount of hanky-panky going on is probably the same as it ever was, which should produce the same number of little princesses and juniors as it always has.
If one accepts that hanky-panky is fairly constant, then fewer kiddies results from either increased abortions or fewer successful pregnancies.
Yes, if you can’t afford them, it’s wise to put off having kids. But accidents happen and that would be reflected in abortion statistics.
Look at the statistics, young people are not dating or “doing the hanky panky” anymore.
That’s a shame. Kids are missing out. It’s fun when you’re young.
People are under financial stress. We have completely broken the normal interactions between young people, so more are simply alone or in broken, temporary relationships. Now we are busily convincing them that they should sterilize themselves as a means of self- expression. We have spent the past few years filling young white people with self-loathing, guilt, and fear, and we are making it clear that they are being replaced. As the final cherry on top, we forced the entire population to take an experimental drug that as a side-effect reduces fertility and leads to stillbirths.
Of course our birth rate has decreased.
# 1 name muhammad.
People of islam breed like rats. That’s why we are in danger of losing to them. It can be said that they are already on the road to victory.
When I was a young man, people were generally optimistic about the future. Everyone had achieved equality as far as the laws were concerned (certain genders can’t get paid less, people can’t be excluded from jobs based on their skin color, etc). Medicine and science were improving. The sins of war hawks and preditory corporations were being exposed and condemned. Real environmental actions were making a difference. People could find work, afford a family and look forward to retiring some day. Now we’re all just waiting to see how messed up the world can get before it totally collapses. Who would want to bring kids into this?
I’m guessing that if half of the population aged 18-29 are living at home with their parents, they aren’t making babies with a real person.
A lot of it is economics….
But I’m still going with the jabs….
Yes, people have been having fewer kids for decades. That trendline is well established and well understood. What a data analyst would look for is anomalies within the trendline, statistically significant bumps up or down. Then look for events that correlate with that time (temporal correlation). Finally, look for causation(s) consistent with the temporal correlation.
If there’s been anomalies during the covid period then I assume the likely correlation and causation would be social disruption due to the covid response (lockdowns, etc), economic uncertainty and the mRNA vaccines affecting fertility (see menstrual changes, sperm count reduction, other medical disabilities).
I suspect any vaccine effect will be completely ignored until there’s overwhelming data by independent researchers.
It will be ignored even then. Independent in now a code for nazi don’t you know.
Not sure vaccine damage can be hidden forever. Past experience with drugs like Vioxx or Pandemrix shows that the science proving serious side effects moves slow but it gets acknowledged, eventually. My best guess is 8-10 years before the pharmaceutical companies and politicians admit anything. Enough time for those involved to have moved on and been forgotten.
Don’t worry, all our sitting politicians have a plan: import millions from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America who are only too happy to have 4, 5, 6, or more offspring!
End times.
Clot shot definitely a factor, easy to determine with same method John Campbell uses for excess death. High jabbed Western Europe vs low(er) jabbed Eastern Europe.
// Children are not a family economic asset in cities the way they are on farms. //
Late 19th century ads in Europe aiming to get people to populate the Canadian west
claimed that children there become an economic asset by the age of six.
My 5-year-old pal brings lots of seeds, leaves etc home from his adventures,
but they don’t add much to the household economy.
Just because people housing is unaffordable it doesn’t mean people have stopped copulating. Unaffordable housing hasn’t seemed to affect birth rates among the downtrodden.
Considering that there are no accurate abortion statistics in Canada, it could also be that the number of abortions have increased amongst the “enlightened “.
Consider the premise of the film Idiocracy which is where Canada is heading towards.
In 1960 it was 3.8 per female, dropping to 2.3 at the start of Trudeau’s reign of error, and continued downwards to 1.4 today…
one might look and see at the corresponding rise in women in the workforce, which rose from from 37.7% of women working in 1974 to 52% in 2014 as one of the factors
Housing prices huh? Folks have their heads in the sand. You have to be reckless to have a child with a modern woman.
Hmm more immigrants than births. Wonder how many babies of those 350k were born to 1st generation Canadians? Also kids are expensive and the fastest rising and largest costs are taxes, faster than housing and food. But hey alphabet people are our greatest concern.
Declining birth rates follow the growth of prosperity. With prosperity comes ambivalence, then decadence and nihilism including environmental zealotry and radical feminism where anti-human pathologies arise, eventually to dominance as we now enjoy in the deranged dominion. On the present path, we will see the demographic rise of Islam to levels where social unrest is significant but irrelevant to the transition towards the culture / theocracy of the most fecund. You don’t want to make babies, fine, get used to the “appropriate” head gear – all thanks to the “multiculturalism” of the Spawn-Fuhrer’s father. In the UK, check out Suella Braverman’s latest speech.
So … as it turns out … “Love isn’t Love” after all. There are many different kinds of Love. That was just a rainbow flag slogan to degrade marriage between a heterosexual man and woman.
Education is the best contraceptive — I think it was SDA commentator sasquatch who said it.
Is that tally of 1.33 per woman spread over all women? What is the tally for fertile women? What about the men who pretend to be women?
It is births divided by women in child bearing years at a point in time.
Juthtin Trudeau – 3 kids
Mark Carney – 4 kids
Chrystia Freeland – 3 kids
Catherine McKenna – 3 kids
Bill Blair – 3 kids
Anita Anand – 4 kids
Liberals.
Do as we say not as we do.
Now excuse me, I’ve a plane to catch.
https://www.amazon.ca/America-Alone-End-World-Know/dp/1596985275
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It is a 2006 non-fiction book by the Canadian newspaper columnist and writer Mark Steyn. It forecasts the downfall of Western civilization due to internal weaknesses and Muslim population growth in Western countries and the world generally. Based on his own observations, Steyn says that the fall of the Western world is caused by three factors: demographic decline, unsustainability of the advanced Western social democratic state, and exhaustion of civilization.
Yearly Canadian total abortions between 2011 and 2021 from a report published by the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada:
2011- 108,844
2012- 100,958
2013- 102,446
2014- 100,194
2015- 100,104
2016- 97,764
2017- 94,030
2018- 85,195
2019- 83,576
2020- 91,551
2021- 87,485
Canadian hospitals are legally required to report abortions. Clinic reporting is voluntary so the actual number is likely higher. For context, Statistics Canada shows total births are:
2017- 379,450
2018- 375,390
2019- 375,229
2020- 361,667
2021- 370,858
Some or all of 25% would go a long way to reaching a stable population.