{"id":62012,"date":"2024-02-19T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/19\/new-zealands-fertility-rate-record-low-as-births-fall"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:26:16","slug":"new-zealands-fertility-rate-hits-record-low-as-births-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62012","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s fertility rate hits record low as births fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst says drop in births reflect \u2018continued trend\u2019 of smaller family sizes and higher rates of childlessness<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s fertility rate slumped to a record low in 2023, official data shows, as the total number of births also dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The fertility rate tracks the average number of births women will have in their lifetime. New Zealand, along with many countries around the world, has seen this number drop as factors like education, participation in the workforce, and access to contraception contribute to women having fewer children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/19\/new-zealands-fertility-rate-record-low-as-births-fall\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst says drop in births reflect \u2018continued trend\u2019 of smaller family sizes and higher rates of childlessnessNew Zealand\u2019s fertility rate slumped to a record low in 2023, official data shows, as the total number of births also dropped.The fertility r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-62012","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\/62012","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions\/62013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}