{"id":24886,"date":"2020-11-18T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/new-zealands-birthrate-drops-to-record-low-as-economic-insecurity-increases"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T04:20:16","slug":"new-zealands-birthrate-drops-to-record-low-as-economic-insecurity-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24886","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s birthrate drops to record low as economic insecurity increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without migration \u2013 now nearly non-existent due to closed borders \u2013 the country\u2019s population will begin to shrink<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s birth rate has plummeted to a record low for the 10th year in a row, with demographers suggesting the rising cost of housing, increasing job insecurity and a strained economic environment were contributing to a reluctance to have children.<\/p>\n<p>Data collected by Statistics New Zealand found the birth rate for women of childbearing age has fallen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/430861\/new-zealand-records-lowest-ever-fertility-rate\">to a record low of 1.63 per woman<\/a> \u2013 far below the 2.1 needed to replace population numbers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/new-zealands-birthrate-drops-to-record-low-as-economic-insecurity-increases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without migration \u2013 now nearly non-existent due to closed borders \u2013 the country\u2019s population will begin to shrinkNew Zealand\u2019s birth rate has plummeted to a record low for the 10th year in a row, with demographers suggesting the rising cost of housing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24886\/revisions\/24887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}