{"id":149795,"date":"2024-03-11T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=149795"},"modified":"2024-03-11T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:59:03","slug":"eurostat-spain-had-the-second-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-european-union-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/eurostat-spain-had-the-second-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-european-union-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat: Spain had the second lowest fertility rate in the European Union in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149802 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/carlo-navarro-WCbCRXk7nmU-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2022, 3.88 million babies were born in the\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\">EU<\/a>, a slight decrease from 4.09 million in 2021. The number of children born in the EU has been declining since 2008, when 4.68 million children were born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Fertility\">total fertility rate<\/a>\u00a0in 2022 was 1.46\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Birth\">live births<\/a>\u00a0per woman in the EU, which is another decline, after the small increase recorded in 2021 (the total fertility rate was 1.53 in 2021 and 1.51 in 2020).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This information comes from\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/population-demography\/demography-population-stock-balance\/database?node_code=demo_find\">data on fertility<\/a>\u00a0published by Eurostat today. The article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed\u00a0<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Fertility_statistics\">Statistics Explained article on fertility statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149798 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1280x720.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2022, France had the highest total fertility in the EU (1.79 live births per woman), followed by Romania (1.71), Bulgaria (1.65), and Czechia (1.64).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In contrast, the lowest fertility rates were seen in Malta (1.08 births per woman), Spain (1.16) and Italy (1.24).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Captura.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149800 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Captura.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Captura.png 726w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Captura-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/according-to-eurostat-the-population-of-the-european-union-will-decrease-by-6-by-2100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/pedestrian-zone-g6f198ed55_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/according-to-eurostat-the-population-of-the-european-union-will-decrease-by-6-by-2100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union will decrease by 6% by 2100<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More information: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/products-eurostat-news\/w\/ddn-20240307-1\">Eurostat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, 3.88 million babies were born in the\u00a0EU, a slight decrease from 4.09 million in 2021. 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