Eurostat survey: Hungary’s fertility rate is EU average, but number of teenage mothers is on the rise

Napi.hu reports the results of the latest survey conducted by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, about fertility rates in the EU Member States. The study analysing data from 2016 shows that more babies were born than in 2015, and compared to other EU countries, Hungary has an average fertility rate preceding such Member States as Slovakia, Croatia, Italy or Spain.

The latest study on fertility rates is based on a large amount of data collected by Eurostat related to demography in the EU Member States. The focus of the research was to compare the total fertility rates of countries in the EU, but surprising results were brought to light both about the number of teenage mothers and about the number of children born in the participating countries.

The TOP 3 countries where fertility rates were the highest are France (1.92 births per woman), Sweden (1.85) and Ireland (1.81), but Denmark and the United Kingdom (both 1.79) also achieved outstanding results. Consequently, it can be stated that northern countries were found to have the highest fertility rates in 2016.

Meanwhile, those at the bottom of the list might also be important to mention for instructive reasons. It was found out that Spain and Italy (1.34), Portugal (1.36), Cyprus and Malta (1.37), Greece (1.38) and Poland (1.39) showed the lowest fertility rates.

These results are in correlation with the ones related to the age of first-time mothers since it was in Bulgaria (26.0), Romania (26.4) and Latvia (26.8) where women gave birth at the youngest age among the participating countries.