{"id":343147,"date":"2024-03-07T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/07\/ue-4-milioni-di-nascite-2022\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:58:18","slug":"eurostats-alarm-eu-has-fallen-below-4-million-births-italy-has-the-highest-average-age-of-women-at-first-childbearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/07\/eurostats-alarm-eu-has-fallen-below-4-million-births-italy-has-the-highest-average-age-of-women-at-first-childbearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostat&#8217;s alarm: EU has fallen below 4 million births. Italy has the highest average age of women at first childbearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Another decline that has been ongoing\u00a0since 2008, when 4.68 million babies were born in the\u00a0EU. After 15 years, an average of 800,000 fewer girls and boys are born in Europe. <strong>Just 3.88 million new European citizens<\/strong> were born in 2022. The previous year, they were still above the 4 million mark.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17065289\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This is the picture\u00a0emerging from the report published by Eurostat covering 2022. The <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Fertility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">total fertility rate<\/a>\u00a0in the 27 member countries was <strong>1.46 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Birth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">births<\/a> per woman<\/strong>. Another drop after the slight\u00a0increase in 2021. 2022 was\u00a0the lowest figure recorded in the EU since 2004.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-343113 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/total-fertility-rate-2001-2022-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>France again has\u00a0the highest fertility rate<\/strong> in the EU &#8211; with 1.79 births per woman &#8211; followed by Romania (1.71), Bulgaria (1.65) and the Czech Republic (1.64). The lowest rates are in\u00a0the Mediterranean: at the bottom of the ranking are Malta (1.08 births per woman), Spain (1.16) and Italy (1.24). <strong>The situation in Italy has been virtually stagnant for years<\/strong>, with the fertility rate falling by 0.3 percent from 2019 to the present. This is a common trend throughout the EU, with one exception. <strong>Only in Bulgaria,\u00a0more children are\u00a0born<\/strong>: from 1.58 per woman in 2019 to 1.65 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The average age in the EU at which women give birth to their first child is significant: 29.7 years. Looking at individual member countries,\u00a0<strong>Italy\u00a0leads the seniority rankings<\/strong>, with Italian women becoming mothers for the first time at 31.7 years of age. In contrast, Bulgaria has the youngest mothers in Europe: the first child arrives on average at 26.6 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3.88 million Europeans were born in 2022-a figure that has been steadily declining since 2008. France has the highest fertility rate, Italy lags with Spain and Malta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":343001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[26106,25746,27167],"class_list":["post-343147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-born-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343147"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344137,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343147\/revisions\/344137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}