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Malta with the lowest fertility rate in the EU: record drop in EU fertility rate

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Mark Camilleri
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Malta has kept its position with the lowest birth rate in the EU as the fertility rate in the EU dropped to record levels, according to the latest Eurostat figures. The total EU fertility rate in 2023 was 1.38 live births per woman, down from 1.46 in 2022.

The EU country with the highest fertility rate is Bulgaria with 1.88 births per woman, followed by France with 1.66 and Hungary with 1.55 births.

Malta’s fertility rate kept going down again from 1.15 births per woman in 2022 to 1.06 births per woman in 2023. Spain recorded 1.12 and Lithuania 1.18 births per woman.

Feature Image: Malta’s births per thousand of people.

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One response to “Malta with the lowest fertility rate in the EU: record drop in EU fertility rate”

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    Harmonyplus

    A third of these children were born of mothers who are foreign nationals. That would put the birth rate of Maltese mothers at around 0.71 per woman.

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