The data published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) provide grist for the mill of the government which has been struggling for weeks to convince the French of the need for its pension reform.
With its flagship measure of a gradual postponement of the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030, the executive promises to provide a response to the challenge of financing pensions, a challenge very appropriately illustrated by the latest INSEE demographic report.
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Above all, it is the decline in fertility that emerges from this publication.
Last year, the number of births fell with 723,000 babies, 19,000 fewer than in 2021, which is a historic low point for the country.
In 2022, the natural balance - the difference between the numbers of births and deaths - then reached its lowest level since the end of the Second World War.
This balance would become negative in 2035 when the number of deaths exceeds that of births
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