{"id":167721,"date":"2025-09-25T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167721\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:41:08","slug":"a-deep-dive-into-australias-fertility-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167721\/","title":{"rendered":"A deep dive into Australia&#8217;s fertility rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the release of the latest ABS fertility rate data, it was revealed that the nation\u2019s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) had fallen to its lowest level on record, slumping to 1.50 babies per woman.<\/p>\n<p>This compares unfavourably with the figure of 1.67 recorded immediately prior to the pandemic and the average for the 2010s of 1.82.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the current fertility rate isn\u2019t dramatically removed from where Japan\u2019s was a decade ago, and alarm bells were ringing regarding Japanese demographics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758789668_931_hvKwU-australia-vs-japan-fertility-rate-tfr-1.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the release of the latest ABS fertility rate data, it was revealed that the nation\u2019s Total Fertility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-167721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}