https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The number of babies born in Germany increased in 2018, new statistics show, while mothers are becoming older. https://www.thelocal.de/20190903/number-of-babies-born-in-germany-increases-while-mothers-become-older Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:16:30 +0200 number-of-babies-born-in-germany-increases-while-mothers-become-older New figures released on Wednesday show that the years-long trend of women in Germany ending up childless has come to an end, with even university-educated women bringing more babies into the world. https://www.thelocal.de/20170726/trend-of-childlessness-among-german-women-stops-even-for-academicstrend-of-ever-more-childless-german-women-comes-to-halt-even-for-academics Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:12:01 +0200 trend-of-childlessness-among-german-women-stops-even-for-academicstrend-of-ever-more-childless-german-women-comes-to-halt-even-for-academics The latest government figures reveal that Germany has reached its highest fertility rate since the country came back together at the end of the Cold War in 1990. But the Bundesrepublik still lags behind much of Europe. https://www.thelocal.de/20170515/germany-sees-highest-birthrate-since-reunification-still-lags-behind-in-europe Mon, 15 May 2017 13:03:12 +0200 germany-sees-highest-birthrate-since-reunification-still-lags-behind-in-europe As Germans live longer and lower birth rates mean fewer workers are available to replace retirees, the Bundesbank says people will need to work longer in order to meet pension demands. https://www.thelocal.de/20160815/german-federal-bank-wants-to-raise-retirement-age-to-69 Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:28:16 +0200 german-federal-bank-wants-to-raise-retirement-age-to-69 Germany is experiencing a mini baby boom - but a veritable "death boom" is more than balancing out the score sheet. https://www.thelocal.de/20160630/babies-and-corpses-turning-up-in-record-numbers Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:40:50 +0200 babies-and-corpses-turning-up-in-record-numbers Every year, hobby researcher Knud Bielefeld rifles through hundreds of thousands of names to identify the most popular choices of German parents. https://www.thelocal.de/20151231/researcher-charts-top-baby-names-of-2015-star-wars-knud-bielefeld Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:43:10 +0100 researcher-charts-top-baby-names-of-2015-star-wars-knud-bielefeld The German population rose by almost half a million in 2014, the biggest increase in almost a quarter century, the Federal Office of Statistics (destatis) reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150924/migrants-spur-german-population-surge Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:38:20 +0200 migrants-spur-german-population-surge If low birth rates and high death rates continue as they are now, a major decline in Germany’s population is “inevitable,” the federal statistics office (Destatis) reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150428/german-population-could-drop-by-10-million-by-2060 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:13:09 +0200 german-population-could-drop-by-10-million-by-2060 Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are trumpeting an electoral pledge to bump up child benefits but admit that the power of their family policy to boost the low birthrate that could take the shine off the German economy is limited. https://www.thelocal.de/20130623/50461 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:32:00 +0200 50461 Since radioactive waste started being transported to a nuclear waste facility in Lower Saxony, fewer girls have been born in the region – a phenomenon eerily similar to what happened after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists said. https://www.thelocal.de/20120428/42225 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:12:00 +0200 42225 Germany's population will plunge by 17 million inhabitants – a fifth of its current size – by 2060, according to a demography study presented by Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich this week. https://www.thelocal.de/20111028/38517 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:05:00 +0200 38517 The birthrate in Germany climbed last year to its highest in more than two decades, but the number of children being born in the country per woman remains one of the lowest in Europe. https://www.thelocal.de/20110818/37045 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:19:00 +0200 37045 Germany’s birth rate is rising faster than it has in a decade, with 18,000 more babies born between January and September than the same period last year, government figures show. https://www.thelocal.de/20101229/32091 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:18:00 +0100 32091 An average German is likely to be a fat, childless, unmarried smoker, according to 2010 European Union demographic statistics released this week. https://www.thelocal.de/20100910/29737 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:35:00 +0200 29737 More than half of Germans would like to see children brought up with stricter rules, according to a study released by broadcaster ZDF on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090408/18511 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:07:00 +0200 18511 Germany currently has the largest population in Europe, but by 2060 the head count in both France and Britain will have exceeded this number, according to a new study by the EU's statistical office, Eurostat. https://www.thelocal.de/20080827/13949 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:22:00 +0200 13949