A 6-week-old baby girl drinks from a nursing bottle in North Vancouver, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Canada’s fertility rate reached an all-time low of 1.25 births per woman in 2024, a situation that puts the country in “ultra-low fertility” territory, Statistics Canada says.
The agency said in a Jan. 26 report that the declining fertility is due to a decreased birth rate, as well as more women not having children “by choice, by circumstance or because they are delaying motherhood.”
