The pandemic has proven to be a dampener on people’s plans of having children, especially in rich countries, further exacerbating a growing demographic crisis. A survey conducted in June 2020 by the Guttmacher Institute of American women found that more than 40 percent of women surveyed changed their plans of when to have children or how many children to have, because of the pandemic. One-third of women (34 per cent) planned to get pregnant later or have fewer children because of the pandemic. Women were also having more difficulties getting contraceptives.
