Birth rate decline in the later phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of policy interventions, vaccination programmes, and economic uncertainty.

In countries with higher trust, stricter containment measures were positively associated with birth rates, both for conceptions in the first year of the pandemic ( P = 0.019) and, albeit only weakly significant, for conceptions later in the pandemic ( P = 0.057).

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