Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization, halting the principal income activities worldwide. The International Monetary Fund predicts that the imminent economic recession will be worse than the global financial crisis of 2008, which severely affected the economy of Southern European countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain. There was then an abysmal drop in the Spanish yearly population growth curve as families could not afford to have children in that economic context; this only worsened the already existing demographic problems in that Spain has a constantly ageing population and one of the lowest fertility indicators in Europe. Taking into consideration that female age is the most important independent variable of success at the time of conception, probably thousands of potentially fertile couples were lost while waiting for more promising circumstances. With the COVID-19 pandemic a similar situation is being faced, where reproductive rights are imperiled by not being able to choose when to have children due to economic coercion. Therefore, governments worldwide should take measures to palliate the possible sociodemographic crisis that will follow the economic recession and try to ease the burden that many families might face during the following years.

世界卫生组织于2020年3月11日宣布2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）成为大流行病，并停止了全球主要收入活动。国际货币基金组织（IMF）预测，即将到来的经济衰退将比2008年的全球金融危机更为严重，后者严重影响了希腊，意大利和西班牙等南欧国家的经济。然后，西班牙的年度人口增长曲线急剧下降，因为在这种经济背景下家庭无力生育孩子。这只会加剧已经存在的人口问题，因为西班牙人口不断老龄化，并且是欧洲生育率最低的指标之一。考虑到女性年龄是受孕时成功的最重要独立变量，在等待更有希望的情况时，可能失去了成千上万可能生育的夫妇。在COVID-19大流行中，也面临着类似的情况，由于经济胁迫，生育权因无法选择何时生孩子而受到损害。因此，世界各国政府应采取措施缓解经济衰退后可能出现的社会人口危机，并努力减轻今后几年许多家庭可能面临的负担。