DeStatis: Total Fertility Rate Drops to 1.32 Children per Woman in 2025.
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A total of just over 650,000 births were counted throughout Germany in 2025. Regionally, there are large differences.
On average, women in Germany give birth to fewer children. What is this about? And what does an expert call for from politics - but also from society?
According to the Federal Statistical Office, the birth rate has fallen to the lowest level in almost 30 years - to 1.32 children per woman. In almost all federal states, 2025 fewer children were born than in the previous year.
The birth rate in Germany reaches a new low. While in the capital with the least children are born, a federal state is dancing out of line.
In 2025, only about 650,000 children were born in Germany – and thus as few as in almost 30 years no more. German women have fewer children than foreign women.
Last year the birth rate was as low as it has not been for 20 years. About 650,000 children were born in Germany. But there is a federal state where the number of births per woman has increased.
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