Demographic Collapse: France Records More Deaths Than Births for First Time Since WWII
Baby Roxanna (Credit: Yazdani) France has crossed a demographic threshold that would have been completely unthinkable just a generation ago. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, the country recorded more deaths than births—a historic break from its postwar trajectory and a definitive sign of the ongoing, and much-ignored, demographic collapse across Europe and the West. According to official figures