This is a list of German states by fertility rate as of 2022 according to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany.
States | Fertility rate per woman [1] | Number of births [2] |
---|---|---|
Lower Saxony | 1.52 | 71,289 |
Rhineland-Palatinate | 1.52 | 36,731 |
Bremen | 1.51 | 6,720 |
North Rhine-Westphalia | 1.49 | 164,496 |
Bavaria | 1.49 | 124,897 |
Baden-Württemberg | 1.49 | 104,549 |
Brandenburg | 1.47 | 17,439 |
Hesse | 1.46 | 57,360 |
Schleswig-Holstein | 1.45 | 23,953 |
Saxony-Anhalt | 1.45 | 14,506 |
Thuringia | 1.43 | 14,131 |
Saarland | 1.41 | 7,814 |
Saxony | 1.4 | 29,331 |
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 1.39 | 10,820 |
Hamburg | 1.32 | 19,054 |
Berlin | 1.25 | 35,729 |
Germany | 1.46 | 738,819 |
The demography of Germany is monitored by the Statistisches Bundesamt. According to the most recent data, Germany's population is 84,607,016 making it the most populous country in the European Union and the nineteenth-most populous country in the world. The total fertility rate was rated at 1.58 in 2021, significantly below the replacement rate of 2.1. For a long time Germany had one of the world's lowest fertility rates of around 1.3 to 1.4, however there has been a small increase in recent years. Due to the low birth rate Germany has recorded more deaths than births every year since 1972, which means 2021 was the 50th consecutive year the German population would have decreased without immigration. However, due to immigration the population has actually increased during the last half-century. In 2019 the number of people with a foreign background was 26%; this category includes foreigners, naturalized citizens, ethnic German repatriates from Eastern Europe and the children of all of the above.
Rhineland-Palatinate is a western state of Germany. It covers 19,846 km2 (7,663 sq mi) and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Saxony-Anhalt is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of 20,451.7 square kilometres (7,896.4 sq mi) and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the 8th-largest state in Germany by area and the 11th-largest by population. Its capital is Magdeburg and its largest city is Halle (Saale).
Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants as of 2019 across a total area of nearly 35,752 km2 (13,804 sq mi), it is the third-largest German state by both area and population. As a federated state, Baden-Württemberg is a partly-sovereign parliamentary republic. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Other major cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen, and Ulm.
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The Federal Statistical Office is a federal authority of Germany. It reports to the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
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