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2025-11-24
On 17 November 2025, Philip Pilkington, an economist and senior researcher at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, posted a thread on X in which he said "Britain is in a phase of self-euthanisation." [i] He shared some data analysis, including mine,[ii] showing that in 2024 one-third of all viable pregnancies ended in abortion. He said, "this is a major signal that something is deeply wrong in the economy. Britain is heading to an almighty demographic crash-out." and finished that tweet by linking abortion and the declining birth rate to the need for much higher immigration.[iii]
There have been many on X and other social media who have commented how shocked they were to read that one-third of pregnancies were ending in abortion. It would be fair to say that most people following Pilkington and others reading the retweets of his thread, had no idea that this was where we have now arrived, and the overwhelming majority, even those professing their leaning towards being pro-choice, are outraged that this is happening at such a high rate.
Pilkington cited this earlier post, 300,000 abortions per year in the UK, in which I projected the annual number of abortions across the UK in 2023 and 2024. In that, I stated that the ratio of abortions to live births in 2022 was officially published as 40.2 abortions per 100 live births and projected a 16% increase to 46.6 in 2024.