Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "COVID-19 pandemic baby bust" in English language version.
In the US, the fertility rate fell by 4 per cent in 2020, to the lowest on record. Italy's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since unification in 1861; together with a high Covid-19 death toll, this has caused a drop in population equivalent to a city the size of Florence. In France birth numbers have dropped to their lowest since the Second World War; in Japan and South Korea there have been record lows. The number of births in China dropped 15 per cent in 2020; after decades of maintaining a one-child policy, replaced with an allowance for two in 2016, the government announced in May that women could now have three children.
