Baisse historique des naissances en France

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Un nombre légèrement plus élevé de résidents mais moins de naissances : la France compte désormais près de 68,4 millions d'habitants depuis le début de l'année, ce qui représente une nouvelle augmentation de 0,3% sur un an, cependant limitée par une baisse significative de la natalité. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 A slightly higher number of residents but fewer births,

00:03 France now has nearly 68.4 million inhabitants since the beginning of the year,

00:08 which represents a new increase of 0.3% over a year,

00:12 however limited by a significant decrease in birth.

00:17 On 1 January 2024, 68,373,000 people lived in France,

00:23 of which 66.1 million in the metropolis and 2.2 million in the five overseas departments,

00:28 according to data published by INSEE on Tuesday.

00:31 As in 2022, the population increased by 0.3%,

00:36 a rate of growth that slowed down from +0.4% in 2019,

00:41 2020 and 2021, and +0.5% in 2017 and 2018.

00:47 This population growth is mainly linked to migratory sales,

00:51 estimated at +183,000 people,

00:54 the difference between the number of people who entered and those who left the territory.

00:59 It was also drawn by the natural income of the population,

01:02 namely the difference between the number of births and deaths.

01:06 This income, which rose to +47,000 people,

01:10 has however reached its lowest level since the end of the Second World War,

01:14 specifies the National Statistical Institute in this annual demographic report.

01:19 A situation that is mainly explained by the decrease in births,

01:23 faster than that of deaths.

01:25 Fertility in decline

01:27 In 2023, 678,000 babies were born in the country,

01:32 6.6% less than the previous year,

01:35 which corresponds to the lowest number of births in a year since 1946.

01:40 This decline in birth rate is mainly due to the decrease in fertility rate,

01:44 which was 1.68 children per woman last year,

01:48 against 1.79 in 2022.

01:51 It had decreased each year between 2015 and 2020,

01:54 after having oscillated around 2 children per woman between 2006 and 2014.

01:59 In 2023, this fertility rate falls for all-age women,

02:04 including those aged 30 or older,

02:06 not least due to the decline in fertility before the health crisis.

02:11 There are undoubtedly a lot of factors at stake,

02:13 as commented during a press conference by Sylvie Lemuné,

02:17 head of the Ince's demographic studies unit.

02:21 She cited, for example, the economic context of high inflation

02:24 and the issue of "conciliation between family life and professional life",

02:29 which could cool some of the children's desires.

02:32 In a statement, the National Union of Family Associations, UNAF,

02:36 estimates that a "universal family policy articulating measures

02:40 in favor of family life and professional life reconciliation

02:44 would be an effective solution to this decline in fertility".

02:49 France, however, remained in 2021,

02:51 the last possible comparative,

02:53 the most fertile country in the European Union,

02:56 with 1.84 children per woman, according to Eurostar.

03:00 Life expectancy is progressing.

03:03 In 2023, the Ince estimates 631,000 deaths,

03:07 a number 6.5% behind compared to 2022,

03:11 a year marked by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic

03:14 and high-heat episodes.

03:17 In 2023, the summer heatwaves were much less deadly.

03:22 As for life expectancy at birth,

03:25 it has strongly progressed to 85.7 years for women,

03:29 plus 0.6 years, and 80 years, plus 0.7, for men, a first.

03:36 Since the mid-1990s,

03:39 it has grown slower for women than for men,

03:41 thus reducing the gap between the two sexes.

03:44 As for the age pyramid,

03:47 on 1 January 2024,

03:49 21.5% of inhabitants were 65 or older.

03:53 This proportion has increased by more than 30 years,

03:56 point line C.

03:58 And the population's aging has accelerated

04:00 since the middle of the 2010s,

04:02 with the arrival at this age of the many generations of the baby boom.

04:07 The under-15s represented 17% of the population at the beginning of the year.

04:11 In France, 242,000 marriages were celebrated last year,

04:16 235,000 of whom were of different sexes

04:19 and 7,000 of whom were of the same sex.

04:21 The number of marriages is stabilising at a high level in 2022,

04:25 partly due to a recovery of the unions reported during the pandemic,

04:29 point line C.

04:31 The number of pacts is also at a high level,

04:35 210,000 as the previous year.

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