Official figures show live births in England and Wales decline again, reaching the lowest level since 1976. Across the latest year reported, there were 585,396 live births, down from 594,677 the year before. The figure is described as the lowest since 1976, when 584,270 births were recorded, and also as the fourth-lowest total in the past 100 years. The reporting also states that the share of births to foreign-born parents reaches a record level, cited as accounting for four in ten births. While the sources emphasize the overall fall in the number of live births, they also highlight a demographic shift in parental origin at the same time. Taken together, the articles present a picture of fewer births overall, alongside increasing representation of foreign-born parents among those births. The sources base their conclusions on published official statistics for England and Wales.