Biz: Industry Insights

I can't find the original article and I may well have read it here, but anyway, there has been a dramatic upsurge in Boots sales of prenatal stuff like pregnancy vitamins which would indicate an upsurge in pregnancies. The short line from the business summary is "Higher birth rate forecast from 2009." Possibly a side effect of the housing bubble was for many couples to delay families, inducing a dip (Japan still low birth rate), similar to the war years. Women can't delay for ever of course. Our immigration policy assumes that our birth rate had stabilised at a lower level. 2009 would only be the beginning of this trend.