"The most dramatic drops happened in cities on the country’s two coasts. On the West Coast, Victoria had the country’s lowest fertility rate, at 0.82. (Unlike birth rates, fertility rates account for the age structure of a population – in the case of Victoria, taking into account the older average age.) And in Vancouver, the fertility rate dropped from 1.09 in 2020 to 0.94.

It’s likely no coincidence, said Prof. Kerr, that these are also cities where the cost of living is especially high. It’s a region, he said, where 'the cost of housing has risen dramatically, where we have concerns around the precarious working conditions for young people, we have a lot of young adults trying to establish themselves' – all of that, often, before having kids."

In Canada’s major cities, fertility rates are in steep decline. What happened?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-canada-major-cities-fertility-rates-decline-what-happened/

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