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2023
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[Journal:] Population and Development Review [ISSN:] 1728-4457 [Volume:] 50 [Issue:] S1 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Hoboken, NJ [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 23-58
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Wiley, Hoboken, NJ
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We use monthly birth data collected by the Human Fertility Database to analyze the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on birth trends until September 2022 in 38 higher‐income countries. We also present estimates of the monthly total fertility rate adjusted for seasonality. Our analysis reveals that the pandemic led to distinct swings in births and fertility rates. The initial pandemic shock was associated with a fall in births in most countries, with the sharpest drop in January 2021. Next, birth rates showed a short‐term recovery in March 2021, following the conceptions after the end of the first wave of the pandemic. Most countries reported a stable or slightly increasing number of births in the subsequent months, especially in autumn 2021. Yet another, quite unexpected, downturn in births started in January 2022, linked with the conceptions in spring 2021 when the pandemic measures were mostly eased out and vaccination was gaining momentum. Taken together and contrary to some initial expectations, the coronavirus pandemic did not bring a lasting "baby bust" in most of the analyzed countries. Especially the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States experienced an improvement in their birth dynamics in 2021 compared with the prepandemic period.
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births
fertility
COVID‐19
COVID‐19 and birth trends
data
monthly data
high‐income countries
Europe
United States
East Asia
Human Fertility Database
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