MONTREAL -- A 0.4 per cent increase in Quebec’s birth rate last year is the first the province has seen since 2012, according to Quebec's statistics agency.
There were an estimated 84,200 births in the province in 2019, compared to 83,840 the year before, representing a minor increase of 360.
The change is being attributed to an increase in the number of women in Quebec who are of childbearing age, rather than a change in the province's fertility rate. In fact, the fertility rate actually dropped last year -- from 1.59 children per woman in 2018 to 1.58 in 2019.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-birth-rate-rose-last-year-for-the-first-time-since-2012-1.4917330
There were an estimated 84,200 births in the province in 2019, compared to 83,840 the year before, representing a minor increase of 360.
The change is being attributed to an increase in the number of women in Quebec who are of childbearing age, rather than a change in the province's fertility rate. In fact, the fertility rate actually dropped last year -- from 1.59 children per woman in 2018 to 1.58 in 2019.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-birth-rate-rose-last-year-for-the-first-time-since-2012-1.4917330