{"id":28680,"date":"2020-07-18T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28680"},"modified":"2020-07-18T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T08:30:45","slug":"fertility-rate-jaw-dropping-global-crash-in-children-being-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28680","title":{"rendered":"Fertility rate: &#8216;Jaw-dropping&#8217; global crash in children being born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Baby.jpg\" alt=\"Baby\" class=\"wp-image-28681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Baby.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Baby-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a &#8220;jaw-dropping&#8221; impact on societies, say researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And 23 nations &#8211; including Spain and Japan &#8211; are expected to see their populations halve by 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-53409521\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-53409521<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a &#8220;jaw-dropping&#8221; impact on societies, say researchers. Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations &#8211; including Spain and Japan &#8211; are expected to see their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fertility rate: &#8216;Jaw-dropping&#8217; global crash in children being born&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28682,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28680\/revisions\/28682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}