Fertility rate in England and Wales drops to new low
Women in England and Wales had an average of 1.44 children between 2022 a nd 2023, the lowest rate on record. The average age of new mums and dads has increased to 33.8 for fathers and 30.9 for mothers. Research suggests not millennials, born up to the mid-1990s, are not having children for reasons including not feeling ready for children, financial pressures and not finding the right partners. While the number of births fell to a record low last year, at 12 million, the number of women of child-bearing