Israel's total fertility rate is 2.9 children per woman, followed by Mexico and France with 1.8 children per woman and nearly double the OECD average of 1.5, report says recent.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews favor high fertility.
ISRAEL The birth rate for Israel in 2022 was of 19,248 births per 1000 people a decrease of 1.49% compared to 2021. The birth rate for Israel in 2021 was 19,539 births per 1000 people, a decrease of 1.47% compared to 2020.
FRANCE. France recorded 723,000 births in 2022, or a birth rate of 10.6 per 1000 inhabitants. In 1994, this figure was 12.5, and even peaked at 13.3 in 2000.
But since that date, we have seen a constant decline which has accelerated since 2010. With 15,000 fewer babies between 2022 and 2021, INSEE indicates that it could have been worse “if there had not been the confinement linked to the health crisis”, which still allowed a rise in 2021 with a visible increase “9 months after the first confinement.”
The public statistics body explains this decline by the combination of several factors. Thus, according to INSEE, “the female population aged 20 to 40, the age when women are most fertile, has generally decreased since the mid-1990s and has reached a plateau since 2016”.
Indeed, as the organization explains, “the number of births depends both on the number of women of childbearing age and their fertility”. With a drop in the number of women, mechanically, the number of births falls.
Moreover, while the fertility index stood at 1.82 per woman in 2020, this figure fell to 1.79 in 2022, even if we note an exceptional period during COVID.
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This decline in the birth rate also has much deeper reasons. Unlike the years after May 68, the place of women has changed considerably. From the role of “mother of the family”, today, women are also an integral part of society.
