{"id":28603,"date":"2021-02-18T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/new-zealand-birthrate-sinks-to-its-lowest-ever"},"modified":"2021-02-18T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:08:36","slug":"new-zealand-birthrate-sinks-to-its-lowest-ever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28603","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand birthrate sinks to its lowest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just 1.61 births per woman of child-bearing age recorded in 2020 amid economic uncertainty and acceptance of child-free lifestyles<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s birthrate dropped to its lowest ever level in 2020, well below the population replacement rate of 2.1.<\/p>\n<p>According to Statistics New Zealand, the country\u2019s total fertility rate dropped to 1.61 births per woman of child-bearing age (15\u201349 years), the latest fall in a decade-old trend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/18\/new-zealand-birthrate-sinks-to-its-lowest-ever\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 1.61 births per woman of child-bearing age recorded in 2020 amid economic uncertainty and acceptance of child-free lifestylesNew Zealand\u2019s birthrate dropped to its lowest ever level in 2020, well below the population replacement rate of 2.1.Accord&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28605,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603\/revisions\/28605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}