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Article: Feature: Demographics and the birth rate - Lie back and think of England.
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- Pensions Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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The low birth rate has been much in the news and the government recently published a leaflet on the future impact of the birth rate on the UK population. This may signal an increasing political interest in measures to make it easier for people, particularly employees, to raise children. Such changes would also impact employers, and the effects might be broader than you might at first think.
In England and Wales, the birth rate increased to 1.73 in 2003. This is the total period fertility rate - the measure of the number of children a woman would have in her lifetime if, at each age, she experienced the average birth rate for women at that age - as measured in ...