Lowest Birthrates in Germany, While Migrant Worker Arrivals Soar

May 4, 2024

Fewer Germans are getting married and having children, but the population continues to grow thanks to immigrants and their children, new government statistics suggest.

Approximately 693,000 babies will be born in Germany, which has a population of approximately 84.5 million, in 2023, a decrease of 6.2 babies per year.

It was also significantly lower that year than the previous year, and down 7.1 percent since 2021. The latest figures taken together show that births in Germany are at their lowest level since 2013. In Germany, there are more deaths than births each year. For example, in 2022, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births, increasing by 327,000.

as report By German Broadsheet die weltNot only is the total number of births continuing to fall in free fall, but the distribution of births is also changing, with fewer women having children at all and some women having more children. This is reflected in statistics showing that while the number of first children born to new mothers has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, the number of third and subsequent children born to new mothers is increasing. ing.

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This trend is driven by the prevalence of immigrant women in Germany, the report says. “Foreign mothers play an important role in increasing the number of third and subsequent births,” the paper quoted a spokesperson for Germany’s Statistics Office as saying.

Germany is not alone in experiencing a similar phenomenon; last year, the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the total fertility rate had fallen to 1.49 children per woman, the lowest on record. It is pointed out that it has become. The report found that while the number of childless people in the general population is increasing, among women who do decide to become mothers, the average number of children they have has remained the same.

In this country, between 1990 and 2019, “the rate of unwanted pregnancies ending in abortion rose from 26% to 41%.”

But total births weren’t the only trend German government statisticians noted this week, with the state reporting a 7.6% drop in the number of marriages in the past 12 months to 361,000. . Barring the coronavirus lockdown era, when marriage was almost impossible anyway, marriage rates in 2023 are said to be the lowest in modern German history, with records dating back to 1950.

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The number of new families born naturally in Germany may be rapidly decreasing, but the country’s population continues to grow. Increased by 1.1 million in 2022For example, the continued strong growth is driven by statistics from the German Statistical Office. my calculations — by “Records of Net Immigration.”

surely, revealed this week The number of foreign workers from non-EU countries with temporary residence permits increased by an astonishing 19% in one year. The total number of foreign “temporary workers” has steadily increased over the past decade, although Germany’s long experience shows that they are anything but temporary workers in the long run.

Indians make up the largest group of new arrivals on the visa program, followed by Russians, when counted separately from European Union migrants, asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees, the report said. People are Turks.