The proportion of twin births in the southwest has almost doubled since 1980.
According to the State Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday, this is also due to the age of the mothers.
The proportion of women who have children at the age of 35 and later rose from 17 percent in 2000 to 27 percent in 2020.
Stuttgart - Older mothers are more likely to have twins than average.
The main reason for the increase in multiple births is, according to the information, modern reproductive medicine.
106,483 women in Baden-Württemberg gave birth to children in 2020, and in 1891 they gave birth to twins.
This corresponds to a share of 1.8 percent.
Twins of a boy and a girl were the most common, followed by twin brothers and twin sisters.
Last year 24 women had triplets, quadruplets were not born.
Quintuplets were last born in the country in 1999.
dpa