Canada’s total fertility rate dropped to its lowest point in more than a century of data-keeping in 2022, hitting just 1.33 children per woman, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.
The 7.4 per cent decline in the rate from 2021 to 2022, the agency said, was the steepest drop since the 7.6 per cent decline from 1971 to 1972, which took place at the height of the baby bust following the 1946-1965 baby boom.
The 1971-1972 decline also took place three years after Parliament passed legislation that legalized birth control pills and therapeutic abortions.
The trend of decreasing fertility rates affected all provinces to varying
