More than 83 million people live in Germany. Last year, 13 percent of these were children under the age of 14. This is a positive trend.
The proportion of children in the population in Germany has increased. At the beginning of last year, it was 13.0 percent, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden on the occasion of International Children’s Day on June 1st. A low of 12.2 percent was measured in early 2015. Of the 83.2 million people living in Germany at the beginning of 2022, 10.9 million were children up to the age of 13.
On average in the EU, the proportion of children at the beginning of 2022 was 13.9 percent, as the Federal Office announced. It was lower than in Germany in Italy (11.7 percent), Portugal (11.8 percent), Malta and Greece (12.6 percent each) and Spain (12.9 percent). Ireland (18.3 percent), Sweden (16.4 percent) and France (16.2 percent) had the highest proportion.
One reason for the development in Germany is the higher number of births: from 2010 to 2014 an average of around 682,200 children were born every year, from 2015 to 2020 it was significantly more with an average of 775,600 children per year. In 2021, with around 795,500 children, the highest level since 1997 was reached, as the Federal Office announced. According to provisional figures, last year there were fewer again with 738,900 children.
Source: Stern
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