Nigeria: twice as many babies are born as in the whole EU
births in 2023
7.51M births in 2023 against 3.63M in all 27 EU countries, although the EU has twice as many people. In 1950 today’s EU countries had 4 times as many births; it overtook them in 1994.
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The number of babies born in a year: in one country and in all 27 countries of today’s EU together. About 450 million people live in the EU, but women there have fewer than one and a half children each; in Africa and South Asia far more.
Blue is births in the country, orange in all EU countries together; one scale. The ring marks the overtaking.
- Births thousand births per year
1,707 (1950) → 7,510 (2023)
- Population thousand persons, 1 July
227,883 (2023)
- Births in the 27 EU countries thousand births a year
1950: 6.83M → 2023: 3.63M
The sum of births in the 27 current EU countries for the years all 27 have (UN estimates and national statistics). Selection: non-EU countries with at least 20 million people, which had fewer than half the EU’s births at the start and more for at least three years in a row now; three cards, where the population is smallest against the EU’s.
Births in countries with incomplete registration are UN estimates from censuses and surveys. The EU is taken within its current borders for every year.
A question for this picture
What matters more for the number of births: how many children each woman has or how many young women there are?