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Germany joins EU’s ‘ultra-low’ fertility club (www.ft.com)

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Three more EU member states — including the most populous, Germany — have joined the list of countries with “ultra-low” fertility rates, highlighting the extent of the region’s demographic challenges.

Official statistics show Germany’s birth rate fell to 1.35 children per woman in 2023, below the UN’s “ultra-low” threshold of 1.4 — characterising a scenario where falling birth rates become tough to reverse.

Estonia and Austria also passed under the 1.4 threshold, joining the nine EU countries — including Spain, Greece and Italy — that in 2022 had fertility rates below 1.4 children per woman.

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Western regimes hate their domestic populations so much that they see no point to create a world where these wagies would want to procreate.

The thing is most people want kids but between economic and social conditionsz it is just a bad decision at best or straight ticket into poverty and misery.

While Germany has decent policies, they are being erroded aggressively as with other countries

Boomers really did build a brave new world for us, sold out their own children to the rich as slabe labour so they can live their best lives.

It is always a class wae but what we got is a strong generational element across the west.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Aren't the people having the most kids, like, dirt poor subsistence farmers in third world countries? If no money = no kids I'd expect the opposite trend.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 5 months ago

Yes and owner class are also having most kids too;)

But we are talking about working people in the oecd countries.