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these are addressed under "Lower fertility rate". You have given some reasons for this declining fertility rate.

• chrisseaton 5y ago
  People aren’t less fertile (or maybe they are - obesity etc) - the additional factor is that they’re choosing to not exercise their fertility.
  • Balero 5y ago
    Fertility rate is defined as number of children per woman [1]. Wether this is because of human choice or something else is irrelevant. https://data.oecd.org/pop/fertility-rates.htm#:~:text=Fertility%20rates-,The%20total%20fertility%20rate%20in%20a%20specific%20year%20is%20defined,prevailing%20age%2Dspecific%20fertility%20rates https://data.oecd.org/pop/fertility-rates.htm#:~:text=Fertil....
    • chrisseaton 5y ago
      > Wether this is because of human choice or something else is irrelevant. If people can't have children you can't fix that as easily as the factors causing people to not choose to have children. A change to tax codes can immediately help alleviate the latter, for example.
      • Balero 5y ago
        Sorry, I meant "Wether this is because of human choice or something else is irrelevant to it being named Fertility Rate". Of course you are right that the underlying reasons are all relevant depending on the question, but they are all covered under the umbrella of "fertility rate". In conclusion I am (pedantically?) arguing the definition of the term Fertility Rate, not anything else.