18,710 babies were aborted in Scotland last year, the highest on record according to Public Health Scotland. The abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 rose to 17.9. Meanwhile, the birth rate has slumped to the lowest since records began. The Scots are eliminating themselves!
According to new data from the National Records of Scotland, a mere 45,763 live births were registered in 2024, 172 fewer than in 2023. This is the lowest birth rate since 1855, marking yet another decrease in the country’s fertility rate from 1.27 to 1.25. 1855, by the way, is when records first began to be kept.
As the BBC put it: “The NRS said that for a population to replace itself, if there is no migration, the total fertility rate needed to be around 2.1. It said the overall numbers reflected ‘long-term changes in our population.’” But there seems to be little interest in discussing what those “long-term changes” mean if these trends continue, as it seems likely that they will. Keep in mind that these changes are happening even as the stillbirth rate is also the lowest recorded, and the infant death rate fell to 3.5 per thousand live births.
The report included a few other grim statistics, as well. In 2024, there were 16,528 more deaths in Scotland than births. Scotland has now had more deaths than births each year for a decade. Fifty years ago, most women had babies in their 20s. Now, for the past 15 years, most babies are born to mothers over thirty. Over half of babies—51.7%—were born out of wedlock.
Meanwhile, Scotland—like the rest of the United Kingdom—actually funds, with taxpayer money, both abortion and birth control. It is difficult to conceive of a more suicidal social policy than paying for the elimination and prevention of the next generation, but it is unquestioned and unquestionable political orthodoxy that to do so is a necessity. Why? Because in practice, fewer children appears to have been the de facto goal of successive governments for a very long time, despite all their garbled noises to the contrary.