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Canada’s Fertility Rate Falls to Record Low of 1.25 Children Per Woman
Canada’s fertility rate dropped to 1.25 children per woman in 2024, driven by financial, housing, and health challenges, Statistics Canada reported.
- In 2024, Canada’s total fertility rate declined to a historic minimum of 1.25 births per woman, continuing its downward trend well below the replacement level.
- This decline follows decades of falling fertility starting in the 1960s, influenced by social changes, economic instability, and delayed family formation.
- The fertility drop is compounded by a retiring baby boomer generation impacting labour markets and increased barriers to parenthood including housing affordability and economic insecurity.
- RBC forecasts a 2% labour force participation decline between 2024 and 2030 and highlights boomers make up 21% of workers, with some sectors facing greater losses.
- The population decline and labour changes suggest greater need for family support policies like affordable childcare and parental leave to ease parenthood decisions and economic pressure.
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Fertility Rate Drops to Record Low in Canada
Canada’s fertility rate reached a record low of 1.25 children per woman last year, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The new low represents a 1.6 percent decline from 2024, which was a slower rate of decline compared to the last two years, 6.9 percent in 2022 and 5.2 percent in 2023, Statistics Canada said in a Sept. 24 release. However, fertility has been declining in Canada since 2009, the national statistical agency said. Canada h…
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Canada's total fertility rate fell again last year, with the average number of children born to each woman falling to 1.25, below the threshold of 1.3.
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