Outer-suburban and regional Australians increasingly likely to have more children per person than inner-city residents, report showsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLow birthrates in Australia’s biggest cities deepened in 2024 amid sustained cost-of-living pressures, dragging the national rate to a near-record low.Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane each saw further declines in the number of children born per woman from 2023 to 2024, according to KPMG’s preliminary analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics population data, barely offset by increases in Perth and in regional Australia.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...