A mother holds her newborn baby at the hospital in a file photo. Lopolo/Shutterstock
Canada’s fertility rate reached a record low of 1.25 children per woman last year, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
The new low represents a 1.6 percent decline from 2024, which was a slower rate of decline compared to the last two years, 6.9 percent in 2022 and 5.2 percent in 2023, Statistics Canada said in a Sept. 24 release. However, fertility has been declining in Canada since 2009, the national statistical agency said.
