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Fight-the-Streets said:
From a purely logical perspective: When people are forced to stay at home, sex becomes a popular pastime, and contraception is not always used consistently. This pattern can also be observed in years with prolonged power outages, storms, floods, or heavy snowfall, when people are compelled to stay indoors for extended periods. Such years tend to produce slightly higher numbers of births. The COVID-19 pandemic lasted unusually long, so one would expect its effects to show up statistically as well. It is a complex topic. My fellow ChatGPT focuses more on the general long-term trend, which indeed still points toward declining birth rates in industrialized countries. Nevertheless, during the lockdown years, more children were conceived than would likely have been the case without them. |
Data shows that the impact was tiny at most, with certain places having a relatively big decline in 2020 before slightly recovering afterwards before declining again like the US while other places like Japan it consistently declined every year from 2020-2022 so overall impact on Switch sales will be basically non-existent.
