In the wake of the birth rate stabilization in the country as a whole, the majority of regions demonstrated a trend to reduce the birth rate of the first child and to increase the birth rate of third and subsequent children. The stability of this trend means a simultaneous increase in...

The article contains a concise review of the research related to the impact of economic crises and pandemics on fertility in developed countries. The significance of the outcome of these studies is under consideration designed to forecast changes in fertility resulted from the pandemic in...