Daily Insight
We take a look at the surprising decline in the number of births over the last 18-24 months of Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales, using data downloaded from the Bureau of Health Information. Nearly a third of all Australians live in NSW, so can we get to the bottom of why there’s been such a massive decline in births?
There were 15,868 babies born in this quarter, which is actually a 9.2% decrease as compared to the same quarter last year. But this isn’t just a recent trend. It’s been going on for quite some time as shown in the graph in the video. The graph shows us that births have remained fairly consistent over the last 12 years, but since about June 2021, there’s been a significant dip. Less babies are being born than history would indicate.
It should be noted that the NSW population has been growing over this time period, which includes both babies born and population increases due to immigration. So actually, we should expect the net number of births to go up as the population increases, but it isn’t… It’s doing the opposite.
So what’s going on? What’s happened over the last year-and-a-half or so that warrants such a dramatic decline?
Dr Liz Allen, a demographer at the Australian National University, has been on the news of late talking about this. She stated: “Climate change has been cited by young people in Australia, and other similar countries, as a major concern and barrier to having children. The fear of uncertainty owing to growing weather and climate extremes means young people are calling it quits on children citing ethical concerns.”
I don’t mean to disagree with the good doctor, but that’s a very hard thing to prove. It would require years of research and interviews with ladies of child-bearing age to find out: 1. Did they ultimately have a baby, and 2. If they didn’t have a baby, why not. As I said, you’d have to do this over many years to prove that the participants did not actually have a baby. You can’t just interview a whole bunch of 20-year-olds at university, some of which might say, “Nah, I’m not going to have a baby because of climate change”, but then 10 years later, they end up having a baby anyway. The point is, this climate change assertion is pure speculation on her part.
But the main reason I disagree with the good doctor, is that the concept of climate change has been around a lot longer than the last couple of years! I mean, Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was released way back in 2006. Shouldn’t we have noticed a notable decline since at least then, I mean, if people were truly willing to forgo children because of concerns over the climate?
To be fair to Dr Allen, she also mentioned some other reasons, specifically: Cost of living pressures; Housing affordability; Insecure employment; and Gender inequality. The first three I can somewhat agree with, but gender inequality? I mean, wasn’t gender inequality a lot worse 50 years ago than it is now? How is that only in the last couple of years that it’s started to affect the birth rate? Actually, I would argue that women are more equal than they ever have been and THAT is putting downward pressure on birth rates. As more and more ladies enter the work force and focus on careers, they have less and less time to raise families. Perhaps the good doctor should change that last one to “Gender equality”.
Anyway, that’s Dr Allen’s full list why women are having less babies in the last year-and-a-half or so. Sometimes I think that she was just blurting out any old talking points. I mean, it guarantees her a few quotes in the local newspaper I suppose. I’m surprised she didn’t add institutional racism to the list. It makes about as much sense as some of the others. Look, I accept I might be wrong. I might be misinterpreting her words. Not to mention I don’t have a PhD in demography.
So what do you think? Do you agree with the good doctor’s assessment? Is it climate change that is driving the birth rate downwards? Or is there some other reason? And why has it only started in the last 18 to 24 months?
BUREAU OF HEALTH INFORMATION DATA PORTAL
https://www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/data-portal
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Allégro by Emmit Fenn
low birth rate you need troops for the future but the red nation they got plenty of troops and more on the way
This is very funny🤣🤣🤣🤣
The best way to make someone feel superior is to tell them you're unvaccinated
Correlation with excess deaths !!
The good doctor has obviously gone to the university of wokeness to get her degree
Australia's temperature (excluding heat island cities) has been DECREASING for 20 years
D**********n A****a. Australia is and always was the test bed, and of course Australians took the freakin mrna gene jabs, because they're stupid and compliant.
Would it have something to do with the “shot”
We only have crippling climate change because of white supremacy, don't you know?
Most quackademics that are presenting anything to the masses have been thoroughly indoctrinated and instructed to regurgitate whatever agenda that needs to be regurgitated
TRUST THE SCIENCE
That’s pretty frightening.
2:14 – Yup, climate has nothing to do with me not having kids.
There are many other reason, but climate having the least influence.
Climate change is a hoax.
IGg4 overloads affecting ovaries?
Nah, who would’ve thunkst it!
People can’t afford or even want to bring kids into this failure of a world. Climate change is least on the minds of child bearing age.
Any excuse to spout feminist hoo-ha!
Who would want to have a kid in a concentration camp?
It’s no longer viable to have a family and live in Australia. No one can afford it due to inflation. They’ve made the cost of raising children too expensive. And who wants to bring a child into this shitty world right now anyway
America is a banana republic. How embarrassing for them.
It’s time for all other western nations to dump the US and their sinking ship. There’s more propaganda coming out of it than 1930s Germany. They’re done. Biden is the last straw.
Dr Liz is pretty dumb and probably being paid to participate in the agenda.
The more they try to hide it , the more it stands out. Dont take experiemental injections forced by polictians getting paid by the injection companys. Everyone i know un-injected are fine. All those that are have issues or dead.
Young men are opting out from marriage, relationships and fatherhood because “family” court absolutely court destroys them. The redpill movement has been gaining traction for the last few years and I’m sure these data – at least partly – represent that.
Who in their right mind would have children in this world. People can barely feed themselves without children to worry about. I was born in a time when people could afford to have kids and did so in droves. I opted out of the trap and have had a wonderful life without children. I fully recommend it to everybody.
Take away the future, people dont want to be apart of it. All levels of education say there is no future.
Why immigrant to NSW, your only taxed to the point your genes dont make them into the future. Corporate tax in housing costs and all levels of government tax on everything and education.
Dont mention the war on men.
Funny you should mention the 18 months time period. Appears to follow the C19 trend of a rapid & consistent reporting of miscarriages associated with the draconian C19 format that nobody is talking about. Similar to the “excess” (higher than average) death rate that’s being ignored.
In Victoria, according to Births, Deaths, and Marriages, since Sept 2019 the birth rate is pretty constant at about 6400 +/- a bit. There has been an uptick in the birth rate since September 2022. I suspect the NSW data is faulty. Even so, a demographic disaster will unfold if the birth rate doesn't increase – preferably to replacement rate (2.05 I think).
dramatic changes to cost of living and the decline in immigration could explain the effect birth rates. the trend in immigration basically goes flat compared to where it was before. not saying it's the only explanation
we all know these institutions have been captured by woke idiots and we fork out 45-55% of our income to support it.
This is not just a NSW trend but all developed countries worldwide. This issue is a bigger issue than Climate change as a too-sharp decline over time will cause society to collapse. Too many older people and not enough younger people to support them.
This is also not to say you can decrease population by 2 or 3% per year but you would need to do it over 150-200 years.
This very much has to do with the economics of the rate of pay of the primary earner in a household keeping up with the inflation with keeping the house and raising the family.
Must be hard being a woke communist.
Of course yes it is climate change causing births down if you are delusion.
I wonder what "the good Dr" will blame on the 15.4% excess mortality that mysteriously spiked during 2021 and has continued through to today? Maybe transphobia? 😆
15.4% excess mortality is a 6 standard deviation anomaly by the way, or a once in a 200 year event…it's so interesting that all the "experts" are silent on this, not an ounce of curiosity or interest in investigating the cause. 🤔
Dr John Campbell is equally as baffled judging by his recent videos.
My future wife must be unvaxxed…
maybe because NSW is so expensive that people like myself think 10 times before having a baby.
How about Covid Intoxination that started in 2021?
yes indeed , dr woke has a head full of yoke……