The United Nations says global fertility rates are “unprecedented decline”

Nimata Nangia and her husband were playing with the idea of ​​having another child since the birth of their five -year -old daughter.

But it is always due to one question: “Can we bear it?”

She lives in Mumbai and works in medicines, and her husband works in a tire company. But the costs of having a single child are already overwhelming – school fees, school bus, swimming lessons, and even going to the general doctor.

It was different when Namerta grew up. “We just used to go to school, nothing outside the curriculum, but now you have to send your child to swim, you have to send it to the drawing, you have to see what they can do.”

According to a new report issued by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Reproductive Rights Agency, Namerta has become a global base.

The agency has taken its strongest line so far on lower fertility, and warned that hundreds of millions of people are unable to obtain the number of children who want, pointing to the high cost of parenting and the absence of a suitable partner like some reasons.

UNFPA wiped 14,000 people in 14 countries around fertility intentions. One in five said they did not have or expect that they would not have the required number of children.

Countries included in the poll – South Korea, Thailand, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, United States, India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa, and Nigeria – represent a third of the world’s population.

It is a mixture of low, medium, high -income countries and those with low and high fertility. UndPa included a young scanning and those past years of childbearing.

“The world has begun an unprecedented decline in fertility rates,” says Dr. Natalia Caneem, head of the UNFPA department.

“Most of the people surveyed want two or more children. Fertility rates fall in a large part because many of them feel the inability to create the families they want. This is the real crisis,” she says.

“This crisis was described, saying it is real. This is what I think.”

“In general, there are more advanced wealth than exceeding the ideal of fertility,” she says. She studied this at length in Europe and is interested in seeing it reflected at the global level.

I was also surprised by the number of respondents over 50 (31 %) that they had fewer children than they want.

The survey, a pilot to search in 50 countries later this year, is limited in its scope. When it comes to age groups within countries for example, the sample sizes are so small that cannot be conclusions.

But some results are clear.

In all countries, 39 % of people said financial restrictions prevented them from having a child.

It was the highest response in Korea (58 %), the lowest level in Sweden (19 %).

In total, only 12 % of people were martyred with sterility – or difficulty in pregnancy – as a reason for the lack of a number of children who want. But this number was higher in countries including Thailand (19 %), the United States (16 %), South Africa (15 %), Nigeria (14 %) and India (13 %).

“This is the first time that (the United Nations) has already been in low fertility issues,” says Professor Stewart Gaitel Bastin, a demographic source at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Until recently, the agency has focused heavily on women who have more children than they want and the “unparalleled need” to prevent pregnancy.

However, UNFPA urges caution in response to fertility stability.

“At the present time, what we see is a lot of disaster discourse, either population overcrowding or contraction, which leads to this type of exaggerated response, and sometimes a manipulation response,” says Dr. Canedim.

“With regard to trying to urge women to more children, or less.”

She noted that 40 years ago from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and Turkey, all of which were very high. By 2015 they wanted to enhance fertility.

“We want to try as much as possible to avoid those countries that enacted any kind of panic policies,” says Professor Jetel Bastin.

“We are witnessing a decrease in fertility, the aging of the population, and the population recession used as an excuse to implement the anti -migrants and conservative policies between the sexes,” he says.

UNFPA found a larger barrier on children more than finance was the lack of time. Lamata in Mumbai, who rings correctly.

At least three hours a day she spends to move to her office and return. When she returns home, she is exhausted but wants to spend time with her daughter. Her family does not sleep.

“After a working day, it is clear that you have this feeling of guilt, being my mother, that you do not spend enough time with your child,” she says.

“So, we will only focus on one.”

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