The number of babies born in the EU hit a record low last year, according to official data that highlights the severity of the region’s demographic challenges.
Births across the 27 member states in the bloc fell to 3,665,000 in 2023, according to figures updated last month, the lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1961.
The figure also represented a 5.5 per cent fall from 2022’s total of births — the largest annual decline on record.
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