Press release No. 510 of 16 December 2020
• Number of births slightly down in the first three quarters of 2020
• Fertility rate has declined slightly among German and considerably among foreign women since 2016
WIESBADEN – The decline in births recorded in 2019 continued during the first three quarters of 2020. Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that roughly 580,342 babies were born in Germany between January and September 2020. This was a decline of 6,155, or about 1%, compared with the same period a year earlier. Whether the
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.
