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Severe drop in childbirth rates across the Nordics

What will happen to the Nordic labour market when birth rates in all of the five Nordic countries have fallen to record-low levels? Can existing assisted fertilisation technology help increase the number of children? Or is the drop in foreign adoptions larger?
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You need two children per woman...

...and a bit in order to maintain a country's population level. In high-income countries (with low child mortality rates), 2.1 children per woman is considered sufficient. Today the number in Sweden is 1.45, the lowest since 1749. The sculpture in front of the Oslo city hall is created by Per Hurum.

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