The fertility rate rose in Maldon last year to surpass pre-pandemic levels.
There were 591 live births in Maldon in 2021 – 62 more than the year before and an increase of more than 10 per cent, Office for National Statistics figures show.
This gave a total fertility rate of 1.88 children per woman last year, up from 1.7 in 2020 and above 1.67 in 2019.
The total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced that year’s fertility rate during her childbearing years.
There were 624,828 live births registered in England and Wales in 2021 – up 1.8 per cent from 2020, but below the number registered in 2019.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said a rise nationally may have been caused by many women delaying trying to conceive during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
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