Europe’s Fertility Problem: Average number of live births per woman in European Union countries in 2011 vs 2021

by MaleficentParfait863

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  1. [Source](https://www.statista.com/chart/30818/average-number-of-live-births-per-woman-in-the-eu/)

    Article:

    The average number of births per woman in the European Union was 1.53 in 2021, according to the latest available data by Eurostat. This figure has remained fairly stable over the last ten years (1.54 in 2011), but is still not high enough for the European population to sustain itself, that is, if migration is not taken into account. This is because the threshold for renewing a generation is estimated to be 2.05 children per woman – a rate that Europeans are far from achieving today.

    The following chart considers where fertility rates are highest on the continent, and how they have evolved. It looks at the mean number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to survive and pass through her childbearing years, according to each country’s recorded average fertility rates.

    Trends vary considerably from place to place. Between 2011 and 2021, a number of countries – including Czechia, Hungary, Romania, Latvia and Germany – saw their fertility rates rise by anywhere between 10 and 30 percent, while others – such as France, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Italy – saw them fall by around 10 percent. If this pattern continues, France’s position as the country with the highest fertility rate in the EU (1.84 children per woman in 2021), will soon be overtaken by Czechia (1.83) and Romania (1.81). Meanwhile, the lowest birth rates recorded in the EU were in Italy (1.25), Spain (1.19) and Malta (1.13).

    In an interview with Le Monde, demographer Gilles Pinson explains that the differences between northern and southern European countries can be partly explained by the level of family-friendly employment policies, which are far more limited in southern European countries. As for Eastern European countries, after seeing their fertility rates fall in the years following the dissolution of the USSR, they have seen an increase once more since the 2000s.

  2. Why did the birth rate increase so much in Germany and Czechia?

  4. The issue of a declining population isn’t what concerns me. What concerns me is when governments feel the need to allow for more mass migration to boast “population figures”.

    By allowing more mass migration you keep population figures up all the while native population figures continue to decline.

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    If the non European population increases while the native European population declines then what you get is a systematic replacement of our indigenous European culture and values over time.

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    That’s what scares me. I would much rather take the population and GDP but maintain European culture and values.

  6. EU needs to take some Syrians who are average number of live births per woman 5.8, from Turkey.

  8. Are there graphs like this about femjnicide I’d love to see one

  10. Ok. Everybody quiet for a second. Czechia, what did you do and how can the rest of us copy you?

  11. This graphic is really misleading. The average in EU is pretty much staying the same, but the graphic shows twice as many declining countries.

  12. Microplastics & PFAS all around and in us as well as a global economy that is spiraling out of control don’t really help with us getting babies.

  13. Since everyone is complaining that the world is too full I see this as the solution.

  15. My conspiracy theory is that this is actually intentional. Big capital prefers to import workers than locally cultivate the workforce, because it’s cheaper: you can always just take in immigrants from perpetually poor countries with booming high birth rates and let the problematic (read more aware of their rights), unionized local workers stay dead in the water. So the governments won’t actually make steps to fix this issue, because the big industries like the easier-to-exploit foreigners who arrive to EU.

    I wonder if governments and lobbyists will code-switch if it became mandatory for foreigners/immigrants to unionize and can only apply for jobs through unions. If you can’t exploit the newcomers, then you can’t artificially keep wages stagnant and at that point, would they still prefer immigration over raising the next gen of workforce in their respective countries?

    Edit: Probably not. They’ll just open more factories in the global south.

  16. Good. People shouldn’t be born into this fucked up world.

  17. Basically all are very well under the replacement rate (2.1), but still many of them keep grwoing in population size…

  18. “Fertility problem”.

    People who can’t see how a condom is way cheaper than 18 years of scolarity in a decade-long economical crisis.

  19. Just fuck off with the fertility “problem” already. Please please stop bombarding us with that crap. If people don’t want to have children just LEAVE. US. BE. You won’t have cheap labor in 15 years? Ok! You’ve been profiting for centuries. Spain has been the country IN THE WORLD with the highest young unemployment rate and nobody gave a flying fuck, and now it’s a “problem” we don’t have children. Just import people from poor countries like you have been doing for 20 years and let us extinct in peace, but don’t call it a problem. If any, it’s a problem of being poor and desperate, not a natality problem.

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