Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Polish birth rate hits record low
Poland’s fertility rate, per newly released government data, in 2025 stood at 1.068 — roughly half of what it was the year before the Soviet Union collapsed and nearly half the rate required for replacement levels.
Via Notes From Poland (emphasis added):
Poland’s fertility rate, already one of the lowest anywhere in the world, fell to a further record low in 2025, deepening concerns over the country’s shrinking and ageing population, despite years of government efforts to boost the number of births.
In a new publication of demographic data for 2025, Statistics Poland (GUS), a state agency, revealed that the fertility rate – meaning the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime – declined to 1.068 last year, from 1.099 in 2024.
The figure is just over half the level recorded in 1990 (1.991) and well below the so-called “replacement rate” – the figure needed to ensure that the population does not decline – which is generally defined as 2.1.
While different agencies use slightly different methodologies to calculate fertility rates, according to the Population Reference Bureau, a US-based NGO, only eight countries in the world had a lower figure than Poland’s figure of 1.1 in 2024.
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One might ask: What happened?
Well, the true cause of imploding birth rates in Poland, as elsewhere, is probably a complex mix of biological, social, and political factors, but the most pertinent one is almost certainly neoliberalism.
Neoliberalism happened to Poland.
All of the economic destitution, the social engineering, the cultural morass of the Soviet era couldn’t drag the Polish birth rate into the dirt; it took its replacement, neoliberalism, as embodied most clearly by the European Union, to achieve that.
When liberal, capitalist triumphalists declared the end of the Cold War the “End of History,” perhaps they were right — just not in the popular interpretation of the phrase.
Irish birth rate down 18% in ten years, fertility rate now 1.5
The average age for a first-time mother in Ireland is now 31.8.
Via Irish Independent (emphasis added):
Young people are blaming the twin housing and cost-of-living crises for “taking away” their ambitions for parenthood, with registered births dropping almost 18pc in the last decade.
New Central Statistics Office (CSO) data also showed that, between 2015 and 2025, the fertility rate fell significantly below the level required for the population to replace itself, ignoring migration*…
During the 10-year period, the number of registered births declined from 65,909 in 2015 to 54,125 last year.
The total period fertility rate (TPFR) for 2025 was 1.5, a decrease of 0.4 from the 2015 fertility rate of 1.9…
The CSO’s data also revealed that, in the last decade, the average age of first-time mothers has increased by 1.1 years, from 30.7 in 2015 to 31.8 in 2025.
Considered over a 20-year period, the average age of first-time mothers has risen by 3.1 years. In 2005, women were 28.7 on average when having their first child.
*On the bright side, there are about 1.4 billion Indians out there chomping at the bit to culturally enrich a local government asylum center and make up for the dearth of Irish births.
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