In 2020, 177,307 newborns were born in Israel - 91,101 of them (51.4%) were boys and 86,206 (48.6%) were girls, after a decrease in the annual number of newborns in 2020 and 2019. This is according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.
In 2020, there was a decrease of 2.6%, ie 4,709 fewer newborns compared to 2019. In 2019, the decrease amounted to 1.3%, ie 2,354 fewer newborns compared to 2018. The decrease in these years came after a continuous increase over the years in the annual number of newborns.
Since 1988 there has been a continuous increase, except in 2005, in the number of newborns, and the peak was recorded in 2018, when 184,370 newborns were born.
The first signs of a reduction in the birth rate were observed in the last quarter (October-December) of 2018, and they continued in 2019 and 2020 and in the first month of 2021. Most of the decline in 2020 was recorded in the second half of the year.
Decreases in the number of births compared to the corresponding months in 2019 were recorded mainly in these months: August (5.2%), October (4.4%) and December - 9 months after the start of the first closure - a decrease of 6.5% compared to December 2019.
The reduction in the number of births in the second half of 2020 is not a product of a change in fertility plans following the corona plague, as pregnancy planning was done before the Israeli population was exposed to the virus and its social and economic effects, except December 2020.
Looking at infinite estimates for 2021, it appears that in January 2021 the decline in the average daily birth rate continued.
This is 5.6% less compared to January 2020. However, from February there was an increase in the average number of newborns per day, compared to the 2020 data, and even sometimes compared to the 2019-2017 data.
Abnormal increases in the average daily number of newborns compared to the corresponding months in 2020 were recorded in the months: March 2021 (7.3%), August 2021 (11.8%) and September 2021 (8.1%).
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