The number of deaths has exceeded births in France for the first time in 80 years. Between June 2024 and May 2025, there were 651K deaths and 650K births in France, signaling a significant decline in fertility according to the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). INSEE previously predicted this shift would happen in 2035, making the decline ten years ahead of schedule, a transformation they say is worrying and “concerns France as a whole.” The Minister of Labor and Health says France and the EU are losing an average of 30K births each year—which has been reported on before as young people choose to have children later in life or not at all. INSEE notes that many countries in the EU have been seeing a strong decline in births since 2022, but the declining trend has actually been observed in France since the end of the ‘70s. (Franceinfo)
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