According to the organization, countries should improve family policy and promote the employment of immigrants.
In the most developed and prosperous industrialized countries, half as many children are born as in the 1960s, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD.
According to a report published before Midsummer, in 1960, an average of 3.3 children were born per woman in OECD countries, while in 2022, 1.5 children were born per woman.
The birth rate is now significantly below the level at which the current population would be maintained without immigration. To maintain the current population, 2.1 children should be born per woman, the organization says.
According to the report, the decline in the birth rate may lead to a shrinking of the population already in the coming decade. Then the death rate would exceed the birth rate for the first time in half a century.
Last year, the birth rate in Finland fell to the lowest level in statistical history. In Finland, the total fertility rate was 1.26 children per woman last year, which is the lowest number in the statistics since 1776.
At the same time, the report predicted that the number of people aged 65 and over per hundred people of working age will double by 2060 across the OECD region.