Sri Lanka, July 16 -- Gen Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2012, is in the habit of postponing child births due to economic barriers such as rising living costs and economic uncertainty looming over the country, eventually leading to the low birth rate, a top scholar said.

Delivering remarks at the function to mark the launch of the 2025 World Population Report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Professor Lakshman Dissanayake, the former Vice Chancellor of the Colombo University, said young couples want to have more kids but economic factors discourage them.

He also said that postponing births would lead to Sri Lanka falling into a sub fertility trap.

The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) said earlier that th...