Everything starts from a somewhat worrying observation that these columns already posed in 2022: a firm decline in the birth rate is affecting the West, and the French birth figures have also fallen quite significantly over the last two years (2022 and 2023). ) without really knowing why.
Oh, of course, some explanations are attempted here and there: there is of course the overall trend in Western economies whose birth rate has continued to decline slowly since the end of the Second World War, to the point of having fallen below the renewal threshold (placed around 2,1 children per woman on average).
However, to explain the marked decline of the last two years, some offer additional explanations: between eco-anxiety (this anxiety about the climate future at 30 years old which pushes some to – at the choice – throw soup on tables or to stick their hands on the road asphalt) and confinements, the desire for children would have been significantly reduced among many couples who therefore wisely waited until 2024 to attempt healthy reproduction.
And if we can obviously rule out any pharmaceutical cause (a rather too bold experiment which would have gone wrong and would have made some people infertile), we cannot however rule out the overall tendency of some people to fuel themselves with turnip juice. , soy in biodynamics and other wanking rubbish have deprived them of the minimal vital force (and basic proteins) to procreate effectively.
Midwives, alternative practitioners and undertakers are concerned about the increase in miscarriages and stillbirths as well as the general decline in birth rates.
In 2022, just over a year after the start of the vaccination campaign, far fewer children have been born in many countries. Switzerland recorded around 15% fewer births in the first half of 2022 compared to 2021. This is the biggest drop since 1871, when the statistics began.
The figures also show that abortions increased significantly in 2022. Germany, for example, recorded a total of 16% more abortions in the third quarter of 2022 than in 2021.
The same has already been observed in the first two quarters. Medication-induced abortions increased about five percent in the third trimester (see here and here). So far, the public has paid little attention to these events.
Recent developments are generating heated discussions. The reasons for the declining birth rate are unclear and controversial. Opponents of mRNA injections are certain: the reason for the declining birth rate is “vaccination”; Authorities and state-affiliated scientists, on the other hand, deny this.
This trend, which began to assert itself in June 2022, that is to say 9 months after the 85% vaccination rate in the population was reached, has become catastrophic since August, it is ie since the first effects of the third dose. For the moment, INSEE does not give any explanation for this worrying air pocket for the demographic future of the country.
Birth rate: “A significant drop in births characterizes the first half of 2022. In 15 countries, this drop is greater than 4%, and in 7 countries, greater than 10%. »
Is it related to covid vaccination campaigns? "A significant negative correlation between declining birth rates and vaccination frequency is found in 14 of the 18 countries." Warning: Spearman's rho = based on rank, not on numbers.
The case of Switzerland is one of the most spectacular. The decline in the birth rate is massive, and occurs in a period that corresponds very well to the vaccination of women of childbearing age with a lag of 9 months.