Even fewer births in Spain

Least babies in Limburg

In the past year 2013 65.484 deliveries were recorded. All provinces experienced in 2013, a decrease in the number of births. The largest decrease is in the province of Limburg (- 4.11 percent). The provinces of East Flanders (- 1.98 percent) and Antwerp (- 1.88 percent) fluctuate around the average, followed by the province of West Flanders (- 1.62 percent). The province of Ontario falls this year, the least (- 0.98 percent) https://app.box.com/s/qm8ewbt0o855yr59scha

"The birth rate is affected by what happened a quarter century earlier," says gynecologist Hendrix Came (UZ Brussels). "After the war, in the golden fifties, there was a baby boom in which many children were born from the mid-1980s, there were -. Partly because of the crisis -. Fewer births so now, a quarter century later, even fewer women get those kids. "

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It is the third year in a row that a decline in births is determined. "However, the number of births is still with us," says Dr Came. "Our mother is a statistically 1.70 children. The indigenous population is 1.50 and 2.90 in the immigrant population. Elsewhere in Europe, especially in the southern countries, is still a lot less. Spain takes only 1.3 children per mother. "

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