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France to offer all 18 to 25-year-olds free fertility checks to combat falling birth rates
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In an interview with magazine Elle, he also mentioned a ‘campaign’ to help women preserve their fertility if they want to have children later in life, like egg freezing, as well as a national research project into infertility.
Mr Macron’s campaign, which he hinted at in January when he called for a ‘demographic rearmament’, comes despite France having one of the highest birth rates in Western Europe.
France’s fertility rate, a national measure of the average number of live births per woman, stands at 1.8, significantly above the UK’s which sits at 1.5, according to the latest UN-backed data.
He also told Elle that if French people were able to have as many children as they wanted, the nation’s birth rate would 2.3, but he didn’t state this was the objective of his campaign.
They warned the problem is particularly dire in developed Western nations and countries like the UK could become reliant on immigration to keep their societies and economies running.
Powerhouses such as Britain and the US will have to become reliant on immigration to avoid the ‘immense’ consequences the situation threatens, the study in the respected medical journal The Lancet concluded.
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