Norway's fertility rate plummets

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‘Rethink what we expect from parents’: Norway’s grapple with falling birthrate

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Norway ’s fertility rate plummeted from 1.98 children for each woman in 2009 to 1.40 in 2023 .

This is despite a parental leave policy that entitles parents to 12 months of shared paid leave for the birth, plus an additional year each afterwards.

Factors contributing to the decline include housing costs, postponing having children until ones 30s .

The committee has just published its interim findings, where it recommends additional child allowance for parents under 30 and extra support and partial student loan forgiveness for students under 30 who have children.

Next it will look at the impact of rising housing costs and what interventions could be made there.

Unlike childcare, which is falling in Norway , the rising cost of owning a home is thought to be a barrier to having children.

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