BERLIN, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Germany's birth rate has fallen significantly over the past two years, dropping to its lowest level since 2009, the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) said on Wednesday.
The country's birth rate dropped from 1.57 children per woman in 2021 to around 1.36 in 2023, according to a study published by BiB and Stockholm University in the "European Journal of Population." Germany's birth rate has been one of the lowest in Europe for decades.
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