{"id":89788,"date":"2026-05-27T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89788"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:01:08","slug":"birth-rates-plunge-to-50-year-low-while-foreign-born-parents-account-for-record-four-in-ten-official-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/birth-rates-plunge-to-50-year-low-while-foreign-born-parents-account-for-record-four-in-ten-official-figures-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth rates plunge to 50-year low while foreign-born parents account for record four in ten, official figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.huowQiyOMPbzbEpLZQdQ4QHaE6?w=108&amp;h=108&amp;c=1&amp;bgcl=34c909&amp;r=0&amp;o=7&amp;dpr=1.5&amp;pid=ImgRC&amp;rm=3\" width=\"563\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Births plunged to their lowest in half a century last year while foreign-born parents accounted for a record four in ten, official figures show.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15851731\/Birth-rates-plunge-50-year-low-foreign-born-parents-account-record-four-ten-official-figures-show.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Births plunged to their lowest in half a century last year while foreign-born parents accounted for a record four in ten, official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/non-uk-mothers-birth.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89790,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89788\/revisions\/89790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}