London babies are in plentiful supply – in 2012/13, 131,000 of them emerged, an output not seen since the swinging mid-60s. At the same time, fewer deaths are taking place in the capital than in the past: less than 50,000 per annum in recent years, continuing a decades-old downward trend. This confounds assumptions that the capital’s enlarging head count is directly due to foreigners moving in. (...) Even the biggest inflows have been dwarfed by the ranks of new Londoners delivered by stork.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 18:22:37 +0000