Coronavirus led to a sharp rise in deaths last year in the UK, but birth rates have been falling for the last decade.
Last year more deaths than births were registered in the UK for the first time since 1976.This was only the second time deaths have outnumbered births since the late 1890s.
This trend has been happening for decades but it wasn't apparent in the noughties as another trend was masking it. The main driver was falling birth rates: the late 1960s and 1970s saw sharp falls in the number of live births in the UK.
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