Britain’s Fertility Rate Outpaces Most of Europe’s, No Thanks To British Born Mothers

With a current fertility rate of 1.9 births per woman, an increase of 12 per cent between 2003 and 2013, Britain ranks third among European Union nations behind France and Ireland, reports Sky News. Other major EU states such as Germany lag behind. However, it is not the British born population who are giving birth at an increasing rate. Analysts suggest migration has in fact supported and indeed strengthened what would otherwise be declining rates of British childbirth, as women born in the UK are electing to have fewer children, or delaying starting a family.

Data now reveals that one in four mothers in the UK was born abroad, a statistic that has steadily increased since 1990, and they are more likely to have more children...

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I see Ireland's included in the above average figures - and these would be mainly indigenous Irish babies. Keep up the good work my Irish friends.