Press release No. 282 of 29 July 2020
WIESBADEN – Approximately 778,100 babies were born in Germany in 2019, which was a decrease of 9,400 compared with 2018. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the total fertility rate was 1.54 children per woman in 2019. A year earlier, the figure stood at 1.57 children per woman.
German EU Council Presidency
As of 1 July, the Federal Statistical Office has been responsible for organisingwill organise the meetings of the Council Working Party on Statistics to be held during Germany’s EU Council Presidency under the chairmanship of its President Dr. Georg Thiel. Information on our activities during the Presidency of the Council of the Germany’s EU is provided at destatis.de/eu2020.
European statistics are available under „ Europe in figures“ on our website at www.destatis.de/europa
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Birth statistics (12612) in the GENESIS-Online database.
