BREAKING: Europe is facing a historic birth collapse.
โข EU: 3.46 million births vs 4.81 million deaths in 2025, a natural loss of 1.35 million people.
โข 21 of 27 EU countries recorded more deaths than births. The EUโs population growth came entirely from migration.
โข EU fertility fell to a record-low 1.34 in 2024, declining in 24 of 27 member states.
โข Germany: 654,241 births in 2025, the lowest postwar total. Fertility fell to 1.32.
โข France: Fertility fell to 1.56, the lowest since WWI. Deaths exceeded births for the first time since WWII.
โข Italy: Just 355,000 births vs 652,000 deaths. Fertility fell to 1.14.
โข Poland: 238,000 births, the lowest postwar total. Deaths exceeded births by 168,000.
โข Czechia: 77,636 births, the lowest ever. Fertility fell to 1.28.
โข England and Wales: Births fell 1.6% in 2025, while fertility dropped to an estimated 1.39.
โข Scotland: Births reached their lowest level since records began in 1855. Fertility hit a record-low 1.25.
โข Austria: Births fell to a 25-year low. Fertility hit a record-low 1.30.
โข Switzerland: Fertility fell again to 1.28 in 2025.
โข Greece: 68,467 births vs 126,916 deaths.
โข Malta, Spain and Lithuania recorded the EUโs lowest fertility rates: 1.01, 1.10 and 1.11.
โข Spain still recorded 122,167 more deaths than births in 2025, despite a small rise in births.
โข Finland: Fertility rose slightly to 1.30 in 2025, but remains far below 1.87 in 2010.
Replacement level is roughly 2.1 children per woman.
Europeโs demographic crisis is no longer limited to just a few countries.
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