Fewer Germans are getting married and having children, but the population continues to soar thanks to immigration and the children of immigrants, a new tranche of government statistics suggests.
Around 693,000 babies were born in Germany — a country of around 84 and a half million people — in 2023, a fall of 6.2 per in a year.
That year was also considerably lower than the one before, having fallen by 7.1 per cent since 2021. In all, the latest figures show births in Germany are at their lowest levels since 2013. In Germany, more people die than are born every year: in 2022, there were 327,000 more deaths than births, for instance.
As reported by German broadsheet Die Welt, as well as total
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