DEMOGRAPHIC: Births decreased by 44% in 20 years in Greecetranslated

Important are the changes that have occurred in the last two decades in the fertility rate, according to what the professor (left) of Demography and director of the Institute of Demographic Research and Studies (IDEM) Mr. Byronas Kotzamanis emphasizes to APE-MPE based on the Institute's analyses. Births in our country, in more detail, have collapsed (117.6 thousand per year on average in 2008-2009 and 65 thousand respectively in 2025-26, a decrease of 44%), while the average age at having children continues to increase unhindered (30.2 and 30.3 in 2008 and 2009, 32.2 and 32.3 years in 2025 and 2026).

This decrease in births, which began in the early 1980s and continues - if we exclude the period 2003-09 when a small increase is recorded - until today, is mainly due to the decrease in the fertility of women born after 1960, i.e. the number of children they had (2.0 of those born in the late 1950s, less than 1.5 of those born around 1985). The reduction in the number of women of reproductive age also contributed to their recent collapse, as the 25-44 year olds decreased by 480 thousand (- 28%) between 2008-09 and...