Trends in European fertility: should Europe try to increase its fertility rate…or just manage the consequences?1
- 7 February 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Andrology
- Vol. 29 (1), 17-24
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2605.2005.00634.x
Abstract
Currently across Europe, birth rates are falling and the population is aging. This paper describes these trends and assesses which policies can prevent or mitigate the adverse consequences of these two trends.Keywords
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