I have been following the birth rate issues from a distance - but when someone suggested wanted higher resolution looks at community vaccination rate over time vs birth rate over time by ages, I thought “That’s in my skill-set, and I bet the UK has the data”. Well, I’m partially correct.
The UK Office of National Statistics hasn’t published anything for 2022 yet - they do the whole year at once it seems for releases - sometimes they have dashboards in places if you look around and I will keep looking.
But I remembered that the now useless UK HSA Vaccine Surveillance Reports had spent pages and pages trying to show that the shots are 100% safe for pregnant women. This report has become a monthly report with a new month added each new report with a lag of 4 months. A quick check showed that there is a chart of births in England by month.
Now a few important caveats - Firstly, the data do change from month to month with new births being registered to prior months. Some months gain as many as 500-700 births over time. But I think everyone reading this can see that February 2022 births are not going to be close to Feb 2021 births even if you add 700 births. In fact we are looking at a roughly 10% drop in women giving birth in England for Feb 2022.
But there is another issue with this chart. This is the July chart. It is EXACTLY the same as the June chart. In other words - they stopped updating the data - and we know what it means when they stop reporting data.
I’m still looking for better, more granular data, but this is yet another red warning sign on birth rates out of one more country.