UK Births to British-Born Parents Tumble to Lowest on Record
- Cost of living and lifestyle changes are denting UK birth rate
- Rise in migration prompts more births to non-UK-born parents
The pace of demographic change has created flash points in Britain.
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The proportion of UK births to two parents also born in the country slipped below 60% last year for the first time since records began, as the rising cost of living and lifestyle changes dented Britons’ desire to have children.
Just 58.9% of live births in England and Wales were to families where both parents were declared as born in the UK, Office for National Statistics data released Friday showed. That’s down from 60.3% a year earlier and the lowest in a series stretching back to 2008. Some 37.3% of babies had at least one foreign-born parent, while in the remainder of cases, the location of birth of either the mother or the father wasn’t known.