The world level of fertility in “unprecedented decline” says

Nangia’s narat and her husband play with the idea of ​​having another child since their five -year -old daughter was born.

But it always goes back to one question: “Can we afford it?”

She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her husband works in Tire. But the cost of the fact that one child is already staggering – school fees, school bus, swimming lessons, even transition to the doctor.

It was different when the narat grew. “We just went to school.

According to the new report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN reproductive rights, the Namrata situation becomes a global norm.

The agency has accepted its largest line, but with birth reducing, warning that hundreds of millions cannot have the number of children they want, citing non -parenting costs and lack of appropriate partner as some reasons.

UNFPA surveyed 14,000 people in 14 countries about their intentions of fertility. Every fifth said that they did not have and did not expect that they would not be a desired number of children.

Interviewees – South Korea, Thailand, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, USA, India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa and Nigeria – make up a third of the world.

They are a combination of low, medium and high income countries, as well as low and high fertility. UNFPA surveyed young people and those who have expired their reproductive years.

“The world has started an unprecedented decrease in fertility,” says D -R Natalia Kane, head of the Unfpa department.

“Most of the people surveyed want two or more children. The birth rate is largely falling because many feel unable to create families they want. And this is a real crisis,” she says.

“By calling it a crisis, saying it is real. It’s a shift, I think,” says demographic Anna Rotirch, who researched the intentions of fertility in Europe and advises the Finnish government to the population.

“Overall, there are lower products than overcoming the ideals of fertility,” she says. She studied this in Europe for a long time and is interested in seeing how it is reflected at the world level.

She was also surprised at how many respondents over 50 (31%) said they had fewer children than they wanted.

A poll, which is a pilot for research in 50 countries at the end of this year, is limited in its field. When it comes to age groups, for example, in countries, sample sample are too small to draw conclusions.

But some conclusions are clear.

In all countries, 39% of people said financial restrictions prevented them from having a child.

The greatest reaction was in Korea (58%), the lowest in Sweden (19%).

In total, only 12% of people referred to infertility – or difficulties – as a reason for the lack of the number of children they wanted. But this figure was higher in countries, including Thailand (19%), USA (16%), South Africa (15%), Nigeria (14%) and India (13%).

“This is for the first time when (the UN) really went out on low fertility problems,” says Professor Stewart Hitel Bostene, demographic at Hong Kong Science and Technology.

Until recently, the agency has greatly focused on women who have more children than they wanted, and “unsatisfactory” for contraception.

However, UNFPA calls for caution in response to low fertility.

“Now what we see is a lot of rhetoric of the catastrophe, or overpopulation, or the population is shrinking, leading to such an exaggerated reaction, and sometimes to a manipulative reaction,” says D -Kane.

“In terms of trying to force women to have more children or less.”

She notes that 40 years ago China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and Turkey were experiencing that their population was too high. By 2015, they wanted to increase fertility.

“We want to try as far as possible to avoid those countries that introduce any panic politicians,” says Professor Hitel Bostene.

“We see low birth rate, aging of the population, stagnation of the population, which is used as an excuse for the implementation of nationalist, anti-immigration policy and gender conservative policy,” he says.

UNFPA found an even bigger barrier for children than finances was a shortcoming of time. This sounds for Mumbai’s estate.

She spends at least three hours a day, going to her office and back. When she returns home, she is exhausted but wants to spend time with her daughter. Her family does not sleep.

“After the work day, obviously, you have this fault, being a mom that you don’t spend enough time with your child,” she says.

“So, we’re just going to focus on one.”

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