Christiaan Monden, author of a study on global twin rates, on the future of multiple births
lobally, one in every 42 children is born a twin. According to a study analysing birth records from more than 100 countries, this is an increase of a third over the past 40 years. But the trend is now moving downward. So have we reached “peak twin”? I spoke to the study’s author, Christiaan Monden from the University of Oxford.It means we’ve reached a point where we’ve seen or are seeing the maximum number of twins being born in the world, and that the number will ultimately go down.
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