Slovenia’s fertility rate drops further

Slovenia's fertility rate declined to 1.55 last year from 1.64 the year before as under 18,000 children were born, 7% less than in 2021, the latest Statistics Office data show.

The 17,627 births, or 8.4 per 1,000 population, is the fifth lowest number in the 101 years since population statistics have been available.

There was a four-year period around 2000 when there were fewer births than last year, but then the figures picked up as larger cohorts born in the 1970s started to have children.

In the last five years the birth rate has been declining once again.