Researchers said they have noticed a particularly sharp downward trend in eastern Germany. A new report estimates almost 80,000 fewer children were born in 2022 and 2023 than would have been expected.
The Ifo Institute for Economic Research said in a new report released Wednesday that Germany is seeing a sharp decline in birth rates, with federal states in the east of the country the most affected.
Researchers at the leading economic think tank cited a number of reasons behind the declining birth rate, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Additionally, high inflation has prompted “young families to put off having children for the time being,” said Ifo researcher Joachim Ragnitz.
You must log in or register to comment.
The ifo institute is also usually first to suggest less corporate and capital income taxes, less government spending, less social services and longer working hours as well as later retirement to “stabilize” the economy.
Truly a miracle why people arent getting as many kids anymore.
We clearly need to deport more immigrants!
Always baffles me how people don’t comprehend that our population basically depends on migration. The younger we are, the more of us have a migration background, up to 40%.
The consequences under upcoming fascism (regardless of migration) will be to propagate the “traditional family” and forbid abortions (like we see in the USA).
Current world politics showing everybody we haven’t learned anything in the last century? Might a factor?
The birth rate, or the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, has dropped from 1.58 children per woman in 2021 to 1.35 currently.
In the years from 2011 to 2016, Germany’s fertility rate rose from 1.39 to 1.59 due in part to better overall conditions for families with children as well as the arrival of immigrant families with higher fertility rates.
So, basically, all the recovery since 2011 has been lost.
No global recovery from 2008. A case could be made for no recovery from the .com bust but that’s a bit more nebulous. We have not returned to the 08 baseline.
I wouldn’t want to birth my child into Nazistan as well. Fuck that.
Maybe we should be concentrating on measuring the quality of life … not the quantity of life
The quality already drops, because you can’t find people to do stuff.
You literally can’t get someone to replace your furnace/heatpump within the next month. There are not enough people to care for seniors, not enough people to stock shelves. Doesn’t sound super nice.
DW News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for DW News:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - Germany
Wikipedia about this sourceIt might just be my personal experience, but I am German and my personal birth rate has been steady all my life.
To add anything of substance here, there’s a good ol Kurzgesagt video on this. TLDW: Global phenomenon, hard to predict, just investing more money on parents and their needs has been tried and did not really work. Governments should still try to ease the burden of new parents because Jesus Christ they have it hard enough.
Somewhere else I heard that maybe our pessimistic look at the future is to blame and we should try to spread optimism more (or lay the foundation for a better future so people can actually be optimistic), but that’s less well researched. Not least because optimism isn’t easily quantifiable.
