The birth crisis, against which Emmanuel Macron sounded on January 16, his
“demographic rearmament”
is obviously far from only weakening France.
If the fertility rate in France fell from 1.84 children per woman in 2021 to 1.68 in 2023, the situation remains more degraded among our neighbors.
The whole of Europe is plunged into a “demographic winter”, with fertility rates below the generation replacement threshold, which is equal to 2.1 children per woman in developed countries.
The number of births has plummeted since the 1970s.
Italy and Spain have particularly low fertility rates, respectively 1.25 and 1.19 children per woman in 2021 (latest possible comparison).
But the situation is deteriorating everywhere in the European Union, where the average is 1.5 children per woman according to the European statistics agency Eurostat.
And the decline will get worse.
By 2050, the proportion of people over 65 should increase…
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